| From: | Rob Iacullo |
| Date: | 28 Sep 2000 at 02:26:43 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Ami platforms (was: QNX RTP released...) |
>> 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.
It's really amazing what comes out of some minds, eh? :)
Rob Iacullo (Eagle)
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