| From: | Daniel Robbins |
| Date: | 6 Aug 2000 at 01:44:48 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Slashdot mentions Developerworks interview |
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 09:01:55AM +0200, Jean-Pierre wrote:
> http://slashdot.org
>
> Amiga Update: When Will The Creature Awaken?
>
> Posted by timothy on Saturday August 05, @10:42AM
> from the suitably-breathless dept.
> morton2002 writes: "I read an awesome interview of Amiga head honchos by
> IBM's developerWorks folks. (Linked to from a cool microprocessor news site,
> www.jc-news.com/pc.) They discuss Amiga's new technology and marketing
> tactics, suitably referred to as the 'new Amiga.' Instead of developing new
> Amiga hardware, they're using a code-morphing virtual-machine to run on
> existing platforms ... but most notably it will translate their 'VP' code
> into native instead of interpreting it, running blindingly fast! Not only
> that, they'll be bringing awesome hardware acceleration to OSes like Linux
> when they port their VP translators to various videocard processors,
> allowing the 'new Amiga' to run directly on graphics-intensive hardware ...
> just like it used to!"
>
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Awesome! I was hoping that slashdot would pick that up! :)