| From: | Jim Cadwallader |
| Date: | 16 Sep 2001 at 13:17:12 |
| Subject: | Re: [amigactive] Re: AmigaOS XL for x86 finally announced |
Hi Bill
> >Heh, and what i said in my question (wich is totaly ignored on this
> >list), why will anybody actualy buy any amiga h/w when with amithlon,
> >amigaos XL, amigaplayer... can have better "amiga" setup?
>
> Not really. The above can't run any of the PPC software out there, and
> assuming everything goes to plan they won't be able to run AmigaOS 4.x
> either. As for the DEPlayer, let's forget about that for now, eh?
I think/hope OS4.0 will provide substantial improvements in its own right to
make, say, the AmigaOne
attractive in its own right. I assume Amiga are aware of the need for there
to be a readily perceived benefit
to uppgrading ! :-) Such benefits may increase if/when core apps go to PPC
code themselves?
> Also, a number of people are passionately against any idea of x86
hardware.
> They will buy PPC systems even if there's almost nothing to run on them,
so
> there will be some people buying the PPC hardware nevertheless.
True, horses for courses.
> OTOH, there's also little doubt that people who were only going to buy
> AmigaOne in order to run their existing 68k library faster may now think
> twice. I admit I'm one of those people myself, and I suddenly find a PPC
> system very unattractive indeed.
I agree there is this here-and-now attraction, whether this will last when
future options are realised, I don't know.
> (If there was an equally powerful and cheap PPC system that allowed me to
> run MacOS X, Linux and AmigaOS 4.x, then I might change my mind, but no
such
> system is on he horizon.)
What about the proposed Merlancia boxes?
Regards,
Jim Cad*
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