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- From: oddhs@sn.no (Odd H. Sandvik)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Future Amigas
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 18:39:01 +0200
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <4ke3r5$lu2@sinsen.sn.no>
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- Pacarana (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
-
- : What happened to HPPA+Hombre
- : and then the promise of other Amiga custom chipsets?
-
- canned. Died with C=.
-
- : Even a deal with some other manufacturer to have one of
- : their chipsets somewhat Amigatized probably couldn't fit into
- : the announced PPC timescale anymore, but if this had been
- : started right away it could have come close.
-
- It's much better to adapt AmigaOS to use a HOT available PCI-
- card than to produce own customchips.
-
- : Also, what if Microsoft really manages to polish things
- : up when they finally free Windows from all the old MS-
- : DOS, 16bit and old compatability roots?
-
- Microsoft's plan is that Windows NT eventually WILL replace
- W95+++. They're only waiting for the standard hardware specs
- to catch up to the VERY heavy requirements of NT.
-
- Remember, you need 16MB just to run NT. If you plan to run
- additonal software you better get 32MB. Oh, and a P6.
-
- This is where AmigaOS excels. It's HW-requirements is far
- less than W95, NT and MacOS. It should be possible
- to make systems cheaper for the Amiga, due to this.
- IMO ram & CPU is the main cost in today's PC.
-
- --
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