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- From: jamesm@it.ntu.edu.au (James McArthur)
- Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 10:49:13 GMT
- Organization: Northern Territory University
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- G'Day nyle landas, you wrote:
- : NeuroMancer (bthompx@es.co.nz) wrote:
- : :
- : : James McArthur, regarding your message ' Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW' -
- : :
- : : >: I fear that AT will make amigados dependant on custom hardware (as opposed
- : : >: to just being able to use it), and the amiga will be significantly
- : : >: over-priced all over again.
- : :
- : : >Could I suggest the UAE as a temporary solution??
- : :
- : : It's FAR too slow - 1/10th the speed of an amiga 500, and thats on a decent
- : : sparc or HP workstation. It'd be cheaper to just make the amiga than buy
- : : hardware fast enough to run it at a decent speed under emulation...
- : :
- : : But it is a hardware emulator. I'm talking about a port of amigados, inc.
- : : much needed enhancements. That way, no real speed loss. For backwards
- : : compatibity, you might have incorporated some parts of the amiga emulator.
-
- : I remember reading several times direct quotes from Amiga Technologies that
- : AmigaDos is to be made hardware independant so that it can be ported to
- : other systems. AmiT has also stated many times that they want to break the
- : hardware dependance model. Which to me means there will be some form or RTG
- : and knowing their good working relationship with Phase 5 it could well be
- : their code. The basic enhancments confirmed by Gilles are memory protection
- : and virtual memory built in. I'd say that RTG will be too but that's
- : unconfirmed as of yet. I too would like to see AmigaDos have the ability to
- : run on a majority of platforms out there even the aging X86 line. (No
- : flames please)
-
- Why flame a good idea :-) IF AT port the OS to every known platform, then
- the Amiga will last for a long time. IF the AmigaOS gets enhanced to include
- VM, Memory Protection, etc then what is stopping the Amiga's OS from taking
- on the big boys of the computing world - UNIX systems. Linux and NetBSD are
- taking off since home computer users dont want to be stuck with a buggy,
- slow OS (ie Windows, MacOS) that crashes alot, and the Amiga could easily
- replace Net and Linux easily.
-
- Imagine a system with the stability of a UNIX system, the Amiga GUI, and the
- power of any processor you dream.. Hmmm..
-
- [snip]
-
- : -Nyle
-
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- : Nyle F. Landas http://www.servtech.com/public/ami4000/
- : nyle@servtech.com ftp://ftp.servtech.com/pub/users/ami4000/
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- : Amiga Users Page - http://www.servtech.com/public/ami4000/AmiUsers.html
- : Amiga Dealers Page - http://www.servtech.com/public/ami4000/AmiDlrs.html
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- : Build a better mousetrap and Bill Gates will steal all the Cheese.
-
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