| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 3 Aug 2001 at 09:43:18 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Inc's AmiWest Statement is here.... |
David McMinn said,
> --- In amigactive@y..., "Neil Bothwick" <neil@w...> wrote:
>> > Unless the PCI PPC on a card accelerators appear from
>> > Elbox/DCE/etc in enough time to let AInc get access to develop for
>> > them too. But you'd get more public information out of a brick
>> > wall, so we don't know how they're progressing.
>>
>> What about the Prometheus with a PPC card? Matay are already working
>> with Amiga on OS 4.0.
> This is what I mean about public info. Perhaps it's because I don't
> follow Matay that closely, not having one of their cards, but the
> first I heard about them working with Amiga was the Amiga press
> release.
It's been mentioned on various Amiga news sites.
I guess that doesn't actually mean they're making their own
> PPC PCI card,
No one is. The Matay approach, and the Elbox SharkPPC, use an existing
card with specially written software.
> I think a lot of the news got missed because of the emulator. A fairly
> large chunk of the keynote was going on about it (fairly
> understandable,
But people weren't even discussing the merits or demrits of Amithlon in
here, only the wording of one phrase of the release.
> Bill was excited by it and I guess even though I'm
> not too interested in it, I'd probably think it was damned cool if I
> saw it :),
There's more to this than someone coming up with a neat x86 emulator.
That's been done before, with varying degrees of success. What is
significant about Amithlon is that it has been adopted by Amiga.
> And the press release has only been available for what,
> about a whole day now?
Yes, but the announcements were made at the weekend, and there's been
almost zero interest in here.
> Interest might pick up, but the A1 news could
> seem like a business as usual kind of announcement.
There was nothing exciting about the AmigaONE, but the report of real
progress towards a release product is more than Amiga users have come to
expect :(
> Had the news been it's slipped by a month, I'm sure more
> people would have taken notice (and probably bitched and moaned no
> end).
On Sunday, Bill announced it would be release don November 1st, a slip
of several weeks from the previous statements by Eyetech. I'm surprised
that received less comment, although Eyetech have now stated it won't be
that late and they are sticking to their previous estimates.
Cheers
Neil
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