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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
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- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 21:52:16 GMT
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- >UNREGISTERED VERSION (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) said:
- >>Ack! The custom chipset IS the Amiga. AmigaDOS wasn't even originally
- >>supposed to be the OS used on the machine. What the new machines need
-
- >No way! The OS is the only thing the Amiga has that's better than other
- >machines.
- Even though the chipset is feeble in some ways, it still has a lot of neat
- tricks and the whole architecture handles things much more elegantly than does
- a clone. Just because CBM screwed around and never bothered much with truly
- improving things on the chipset side doesn't mean that it can't be done.
-
- >AmigaDOS *was* the first OS considered, I think you'll find.
- No, they were working on their own, but it got all bogged and bugged down so
- they went to Metacomco I believe for some sort of help in turning some mini-
- comouter Tripos OS or something like that into AmigaDOS.
-
- > The Amiga was
- >originally planned to be a games console (not unlike the Atari 2600) so it
- >wouldn't have had any OS to speak of at all.
- That was very early on.
-
- ><lots of stuff about Hombre snipped>
- >This won't happen, and I would be disappointed if it did. I want standard
- >(read: cheap and fast) hardware that won't be obsolete when Amigas are still
- >using them 5-10 years later!
-
- bah.
-
-