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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The New Ami: a right step!
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 15:56:43 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Message-ID: <4ik13r$brp@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- UNREGISTERED VERSION (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
- : >There, I think Bj÷rn has hit the nail squarely on the head here. So the
- : >question becomes: given that the Amiga is now far, far out of running in
- : >price/performance, how does AT avoid merely digging itself into an ever
- : >bigger hole? The only hope I see is probably to get on the CHRP (not
- : >just PPC) bandwagon, pray that Apple stays afloat, and get out of the
- : >custom hardware business by taking advantage of cheap high performance
- : >PCI cards & CHRP machines. Maybe even share common software development
- : >tasks with the other CHRP platforms. Put all your development $ into
- : >AmigaOS. Aim to get out of the hardware business entirely except
- : >possibly to OEM machines from somebody.
- : >IMHO, if AT follows a path much different from this one, its gonna be
- : >the end of the road for the hitherto valiant Ami.
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- : IMHO I'd say that this would be one of the most dangerous ways to go.
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- From the irc logs after the CeBIT96 event I would say they going that way,
- the PPC amiga will apparently not be much different hardware wise than a PC
- with a PPC cpu.
-
- Regards,
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- BM
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