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From:Anton Reinauer
Date:14 Sep 99 at 02:05:05
Subject:Re: Amiga really is dead after all!

On 13-Sep-99, Donovan Reeve wrote:

>> Anyway, even if do dump it, I prefer the QNX/PPC solution better
>> anyway- loyal Amiga developers who have stuck it through the bad
>> times, won't just get chucked (like Holger Kruse, P5, etc), and with
>> my PPC card I won't need to upgrade for awhile, as I can develop for
>> the new OS immediately, with no outlay!

> It is true that that is an improvement over what we now have... in
> fact, I am likely going to purchase an Iwin as soon as they are
> available.

Come on, Iwin has to be a *hoax*! I can spot another sarcastic prick
like myself a mile away ;) , and the Iwin guy is definately one! :)

> But QNX/P5 isn't going to fly. P5 will orphin it just like
> they do everything else, skipping madly from one thing to another and
> leaving a trail of broken promises behind. I noticed that they
> literaly jumped at the chance to make yet another attemp to lead
> Amigans off to a different system. If they had the success and the
> money, they would be just another microsoft. I am going to be afraid
> to buy one of their G4 cards despite how good they sound, because they
> probably will have a propriatory bomb built into them just like some
> of their earlier cards with the roms. I have been burned twice by P5,
> and that is enough. Please note that I am not knocking those of you
> who are happily using P5 products with no problems. They have some
> good engineering... I just don't like their attitude and
> untrustworthyness.

Yeah, they haven't been the best I totally agree, but it was a /very/
hard market to try and survive in. I'm extremely surprised they're even
still here!

> Basically, the P5 solution will be not much more than an expensive,
> proprietary system with almost no following, only a half-step ahead of
> the Macintosh in technology and far behind it in market and
> reliability. The Iwin will be only equal to the Mac in technology but
> will perform better because of the clean Amiga OS, and will be
> directly compatible with present (and past) Amiga software as well as
> allowing for full access to the power of PPC processors.

Well, I was thinking towards them as way out, in case Gateway don't
come through, rather than as a competitor. If Gateway don't make a new
platform then a P5 solution wouldn't end up being so expensive as, they
would have a large user base, and could keep the price lower.

> -IF- Amiga succeed in getting a new hardware spech going (whether
> they make it themselves or not is of little consequence) it will be
> a whole order of magnetude better than wintel or Mac pcs and allow
> Amiga to even compete with the new machines from Sony, Sega, and
> Ninetendo on their own turf. Better yet, the new Amigas would take
> Vidio, DTP, Multimedia, Art and other productivity type software to
> new and impressive hights as well.

They could quite easily not make one- they *could* be that stupid- and
dump all the small developers- Amiga developers would be /perfect/ for
doing programs for distributed devices, as they're used to making
small, efficient, and stable binaries!

> PPC is for now a viable upgrade path, and one well worth following.
> But PPC will soon be outmoded itself and so I am hoping for a
> solution like the one Amiga have outlined. If that is not to be,
> then it is a Lynux/AmigaOS3.5 combo route for me. But QNX will also
> bear watching if they are able to get anywhere. Anything but windoze
> (Or the new MacOS which is becoming more windoz-like every day).

It depends on how good Transmeta is, all we've had is talk so far-
we'll have to see.

> We shall see what happens, my friend. Who knows, maybe we will have
> several good solutions to choose from.

Yeah, although I think only one can survive :/ The Amiga community,
has been worn down so much, they'll struggle to get /one/ new machine
:/

Cya- Anton



Anton Reinauer <anton@ww.co.nz>
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