| From: | gary |
| Date: | 27 Sep 2000 at 21:15:16 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Ami platforms |
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:10:26 -0700, owner-open@amiga.com "Jesse McClusky"
<thought@weblink.org> wrote:
>> From: "Sinan Gurkan" <sgurkan@superonline.com>
>>
>> I have a feeling that AMIE will run on only X86 desktop machines)
>
>Are you insane? (No offense...) (:
>Yeah, the initial SDKs might only run on it, but that doesn't mean that
>the code you produce with them won't run on other stuff. How do you
>think Amiga can *target* the embedded market if it only runs on x86???
>I have yet to see a cell phone or pda running a Pentium of any kind...
>
>The reason the initial SDKs only run on the x86 platform is because
>1) it makes up over 90% of the computer market, and
>2) they would rather spend their efforts actually writing the Ami
> architecture than porting it.
>Once the system is up and running, then you'll start seeing the ports.
>There's no point in doing anything else before then.
And another factor in the initial decisions, how do we get developers into
the system with the least cost?
x86 is widespread, almost everyone has one. Linux is free.
To prove binary compatibility, nothing better than releasing separate
hosted versions and let developers and users see for themselves. That is
where we are going now.
Catch the Dream ... Amiga Dream Team
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