| From: | Victor I. Haaz |
| Date: | 15 Sep 2000 at 21:26:01 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Re: |
From: Gary Peake <gary@amiga.com>
>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.
Dear Gary, I don't want to argue, but I think Martin meant that certain really big
companies could use their market-influence to bond Ami to x86, surpassing
even Amiga's own intentions, couldn't they?
Victor
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