| From: | Clyde Hannan |
| Date: | 2 Apr 2001 at 14:37:23 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcements - any questions? |
David Stroud wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This list has been strangely quiet on the St. Louis front up to now... has
> anyone heard anything from the show, or are you all too confused to say
> anything just yet? :-)
Well, the audio streaming provided the most fun, except my PSU fan is dead so my
computer overheats and switches off with annoying regularity so I missed lots.
But I agree that there is a lot of confusion. Apart from all the official stuff,
there was also a lot of rather intriguing talk about back room politics and
stuff
with regards to H&P, Morphos etc., which could be something to fill an entire
issue of AA ;-)
Some questions:
Sharp:
What exactly is the nature of the relationship of the Sharp deal?
Are Amiga going to be just one of several partners putting stuff on the PDA's?
What are they actually putting on the PDA? Will it be standard in built into the
PDA or will the user have the option of installing the AmigaDE bit?
And what is the AmigaDE giving to them that Sharp don't already get with their
Tao deal?
OS4-5:
How on earth can they do a PPC based AmigaOS so quickly when so often in the
past they have said that it would take such a large amount of time and effort
which would be better spent on the AmigaDE based system?
Who (which partners) are going to be responsible for what and what is the OS4
actually going to be - i.e.. what's gonna be new, what's gonna be redone?
Is it going to be OS3.9 converted to PPC or more like OS3.95 with bits written
specifically for PPC with the rest running under 68k emulation?
Why will OS4 not run on any current PPC equipped Amiga - but only run on the
Zico specced systems?
Will OS4.x be a transition from where we are now with bits being gradually added
on until we arrive at something completely new yet completely Amiga with OS5?
If OS5 is going to be completely AmigaDE based and the first of a new complete
and hardware independent OS - wouldn't it be better to name it something
different to emphasize its rebirth?
Is OS4-5 going to be completely OS compliant and integrated with no Aminet hacks
and patches?
Other misc.:
According to the Zico specs on the Amiga site, any (PPC, x86, Arm, SH4, MIPS)
CPU is supported - but does that mean that any motherboard is OK?
Can users build their own Zico-compliant systems from available components?
Is development of the AmigaDE taking place parallel to OS4-5 without resources
having to be split and divided between them?
Is the SDK (when it eventually gets updated) going to be ONLY for the AmigaDE?
Or will there be a separate SDK or programming references for OS4-5?
That's all - for now ;-)
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