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- From: bthompx@es.co.nz (NeuroMancer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Haynie joins AT team
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 02:11:10 GMT
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- Swiftshadow, regarding your message ' Re: Haynie joins AT team' -
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- >: It's the OS that makes the machine tick, for God's sake! A standard
- >: PClone today has 10x the CPU and graphics speed of an Amiga, but the
- >: Amiga can still do things those PClones can't. Why? Because of the OS.
-
- Well said, and my point for some time (a few years).
-
- >Aye... Took the words right out of my mouth. One the hallmarks of the
- >Amiga is how much it can do with so little. Could you imagine just how
- >fast an Amiga would be with about 10x the CPU and graphics power of what
- >we now have. For a preview, take a look at the Draco (performance wise)
- >to see what we have been missing. Or an A3000/4000 with an 060 and a
- >Cybervision. Now imagine that but even faster, with a PowerPC at the helm.
- >That is the shape of things to come and I for one want to take that road.
-
- But the Price of such a system... That is my hold up. Will it simply be a
- 'bit' more than a pc, or will it be a 'lot' more ? Will the differance be
- measured in hundreds or thousands ?
-
- And then there is support. No use having the nicest machine money can buy,
- but have no software or add-in cards. I'm sure most current amiga people
- agree on this point..
-
- So, not only does AT Have to come out with a PPC amiga (and fast), it has
- also to gain 3rd party support.
-
- I can see this being acheived in only one way. They must write quality
- software themselves, and pay other companies to write quality software for
- the ppc amiga as well. Our long-suffering developers we have already should
- be given a great deal of help also. Free machines, free programming tools,
- free documentation and tech help - all for a small sign up fee. Might be
- $500 (keep out the dreamers). How ever you look at it, scraping up an
- increased level of support for the amiga is essential, and it will cost.
- Chucking out a few ppc amiga's to prooven developers would help a great
- deal.
-
-
- AT could also have such new computers individually serialised. Each machine
- would have a special number, readable by software. This could be used to
- combat piracy, and would be easily done in todays increasingly internet'ed
- world.
-
-
- But I would not stop at porting amigaos to the ppc. That would only be a
- short term solution; a half-way house. Amigados should be hardware
- independant (and it's apps also). Having that would mean being able to use
- the competitions best hardware against them, and having a software base
- that is not rendered incompatible every couple of years. A winning strategy.
-
- It will be interesting to see if they have the intelligence to see the
- necessity of it. Maybe Dave Haynie, Peter Kittel and the others will be
- able to hammer the point home.
-
- The amiga's hardware is efficient, but outdated. It's a testament to how
- good it is that it has lasted so long. But it cannot compete with the
- billion dollar budgets of companies that have been beating it for years
- now. As one Evil Old Crone (TM) was heard to say "Yoke their Strength".
-
- ...... Brendan
-
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- "Occasionally my Universe intersects with Reality"
- - Thompson the Great, c.1996
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