| From: | Gary Peake |
| Date: | 15 Sep 2000 at 20:04:17 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Re: |
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 05:51:54 +0100, owner-open@amiga.com Martin Baute
<solar@baud.de> wrote:
>Hello Thomas
>
>On 13-Sep-00, you wrote:
>
>> Martin Baute wrote:
>>> To avoid companies doing so (perhaps under pressure from Redmond),
>>
>> The Evil Forces in Redmond have control over Windows. This has nothing
>> to do with x86, Linux, Intel, AMD or whatever, and probably the least of
>> all with Amiga.
>
>Interesting choice you made: x86, Linux (x86), Intel (x86), AMD (x86).
>All those platforms supporting by, or supporting Windows. But the whole
>idea of "ubiquity in computing" goes down the drain if x86 is the only
>supported CPU (supported by professional software). If Microsoft, or
>other big players, provide their future Ami software as x86 only, Ami
>is limited to the x86 battlegrounds, where it will lose for sure.
Use but forget about x86 ONLY ideas. The DE will support x86, Arm,
StrongArm and all the other chip sets listed in various places. We are NOT
going to be an x86 ONLY Digital Environment. No OS can survive by totally
locking itself to any particular chip. Examples abound.
Catch the Dream ... Amiga Dream Team
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