| From: | Gary Peake |
| Date: | 15 Sep 2000 at 23:11:04 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Re: |
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:26:01 +0200, owner-open@amiga.com "Victor I. Haaz"
<victor@pannonline.hu> wrote:
>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?
Yes, leveraging that chip set is ideal, but leveraging even more chip sets
is most ideal. :)
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