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- From: rvg@marketgraph.xs4all.nl (Ruud van Gaal)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: amiga questions. - riscami.txt [1/1]
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- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 96 11:45:24 CET
- References: <4cr622$59j@news.cityscape.co.uk>
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- In <4cr622$59j@news.cityscape.co.uk> bs05@cityscape.co.uk (NEW COLLEGE)
- wrote:
-
- >I saw Amiga Report 3.21 recently, and in it there is a report
- >from a speech from escom stating that they will develop a RISC
- >amiga for 1st quarter '97, that the AAA chipset is dead and their
- >main task will be to update the OS and make it cross systems.
-
- Great (sarcastic). In my opinion abandoning the AAA chipset style and porting
- the OS to, for example, a PCI/SVGA environment would effectively mean killing
- ALL old Amiga applications (especially games; the rest would be relatively
- slow). In fact, it would mean killing the Amiga. Really, think about it; I
- don't call my Win95 PC a Commodore 64 just because I have the OS ported (in
- the form of an emulator) and are able to run the programs, now do I.
- In this light, I think porting the OS to anything that even looks like SVGA
- is equivalent to letting your product die. Look at OS/2. Nobody is waiting
- for yet another operating system for a PCI machine. Except for NT or Unix,
- but they are already there. Who needs it if it isn't special. In time, all
- operating systems will be compatible. Grave mistake in a try to make a bigger
- market. I've already GOT a PC!
-
- > If they port the OS to other systems it could be disastrous
- >for the amiga in general, because although the OS is undoubtedly
- >the best I have ever used if it is ported it will lose some of
-
- Well, I like Unix & NT better for its non-crashing abilities.
-
- >P.P.S Does anyone know the E-Mail address for AT
-
- Try netsearching for Amiga Technologies. It's something like amiga-tech.de
- (Germany).
-
- >P.P.P.S (Last one!) Does anyone have any information on the new Storm
- >C compiler, a URl/email-address would be nice :-).
-
- Haven't checked it out, so it may not be everything, but try:
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com:80/homepages/haage_partner/stc_engl.htm
- It's probably a start.
-
- Conclusion: Amiga is strongly encouraging me (implicitly) to try Silicon
- Graphics machines. Sorry!
-
- --
- Ruud van Gaal
- MarketGraph Visual Automation
- E-Mail: rvg@marketgraph.xs4all.nl
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