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- From: solar@dozy.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (Solar)
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Sender: news@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (News Administrator)
- Message-ID: <DnFHzu.KGp@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:50:17 GMT
- References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960220162223.624A-100000@scsscsc1.reading.ac.uk> <4gldfg$e5k@hasle.sn.no>
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- In article <4gldfg$e5k@hasle.sn.no>, egilberg@oslonett.no (Einar Bergsmo Gilberg) writes:
- > PAN <scparist@reading.ac.uk> wrote:
- >
- > Will the Amiga PowerPc run Amiga-software, Pc (IBM)-software and
- > Mac-Software?
-
- Most likely Amiga only. Perhaps the programmers of PCTask will come up with
- something like a software 486 emu...
-
- > Will it be any good?
-
- A PPC604/133 MHz will be about 20 times faster than an unaccelerated A4000T
- (after BYTEMark results).
-
- > Will it compare with the computer-standards when it arrives?
-
- We will see. Personally, I think the P6 is allready a hoax and the top end
- of the Intel series at once. I do not think Intel/MS will come up with
- something really new until 1997.
-
- > Any more information on it? Sound, graphics etc.? Operating system as
- > good as Workbench ?
-
- It will run under Kickstart 4.0, which will keep downward compability
- by 680x0-emulation. That means the OS will stay Workbench. (phew...) ;)
-
- > Hope someone can answer.
-
- Info taken from AT announcements on http://www.amiga.de and the German
- Amiga Magazine.
-
- I applied for a presentation job at the CeBit 96, perhaps I will have some
- first-hand info then. Whish me luck, guys...
-
- --
- Martin Baute
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