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- From: fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Is it Adios Amiga again? (AT sold out!)
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 00:04:27 GMT
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- James Bradley (bradley@csgrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote:
- : In article <4ko6dd$obs@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>,
- : Bernhard Fastenrath <fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
- : >James Bradley (bradley@csgrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote:
- : >
- : >Yes, VIScorp wants the Amiga technology for ITV. That doesn't change
- : >AT's goals or stop Power Amiga development for more than a minute.
-
- : It does if VIScorp tells AT that the PowerAmiga is not in their
- : plans, to stop development, and refocus on the ITV applications of the
- : technology.
- I think this is very likely because (except for the Amiga fans at VIScorp)
- there'll also be CPU hungry tasks (WEB browsers?) for ITV. The PPC
- will be the cheapest solution. The 68k processors probably won't
- disappear fast (because 68k are widely used in embedded controlers)
- but I don't think we'll see 040/060 based ITVs ...
- A PPC based AmigaOS could easily be ported to Motorola's PowerStacks
- (or other PPC based systems) by smaller companies. So I expect to
- see high end PPC Amigas even if VIScorp/AT won't build them (but I expect
- VIScorp/AT to build them).
-
- <...>
- : >Maybe you read Dave Haynie's posting in the "Re: Death of Amiga?? (latest
- : >AT press release)" - thread.
-
- : Yes I did -- he offers reason we can hope, put it's purely
- : speculation (he says as much himself). Though it comes from the
- : keyboard of an Amiga god, Dave is not at all afiliated with VIScorp (at
- : least as far as we know), and so he doesn't know any more about what
- : their actual plans are than we do.
- He comfirms that there is a market where the Amiga can beat others -
- and it's large enough to attract Micro$oft.
- It might give the Amiga a broader low end base than Amigas ever had.
- The low end machines where what kept C= going, AFAIK.
-
- : >My A3000 is doing fine. And it'll get a PPC card in a few month ...
- : You hope. You also hope that there'll be an OS to run on it, and
- I hope to wake up next morning, too :-)
-
- : future support for that OS, and applications written for that OS...
- : (Incidentally I hope this, too. I'm just not convinced it'll happen.)
- Yes. The involved companies don't put money in this project to
- stop it later. I think that's a good reason to be optimistic.
-
- : Now, on a more hopeful note, there is reason to be optimistic, too.
- : In a response to a letter I sent to him Friday, Carl Sassenrath does
- : give some pretty good reasons why the Amiga could still be supported in
- : future (Power Amiga) incarnations. Basically, VIScorp wanted the Amiga
- : more for the developer network than the chips themselves, and thus would
- : be a fool to let the machine go down.
- One terribly good reason more to be optimistic, thank you.
-
- : It is certainly true that, if they _are_ serious about advancing the
- : Amiga cause, then they are full of people with a much better feel for
- : the system and (hopefully) how to make it happen. It's even possible
- : that success in the ITV market will be used to fuel development on the
- : high-end. Hey... it could happen! :)
- Yeah ;-)
-
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