| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 3 Aug 2001 at 10:59:38 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Inc's AmiWest Statement is here.... |
emptystate said,
> --- In amigactive@y..., "Neil Bothwick" <neil@w...> wrote:
>> But people weren't even discussing the merits or demrits of
>> Amithlon in here, only the wording of one phrase of the release.
> I wanted to discuss why the announcements said *only* the AmigaOne
> will be supported by OS 4.0 - what is the point of the zico spec
> if only one machine is allowed to be supported ?
Because OS 4.0 needs more than a Zico machine, it needs access to the
A1200 motherboard too. 4.2 will be independednt of the A1200 and should
run on Zico.
> I said I was being pedantic when I picked up on the original
> error. Even after all this hoo-ha and 1 modification, *a pedant*
> could argue the wording is still wrong (Amiga never made an 060
> cpu).
If you want to be pedantic, Amiga never made any CPUs, Motorola made
them. But that's hardly a useful comment and adds no more to the
discussion than yours. If you meant Amiga never make an 060 computer
then you should have said that. People who live in glass houses and all
that. It's moot anyway, Amiga did make an 060 model, the A4000T.
>> There's more to this than someone coming up with a neat x86
>> emulator. That's been done before, with varying degrees of success.
> I think it sounds like a great product, just not interesting to me.
So why didn't you say that, instead of nit picking?
> I'd argue with Don Cox, I don't think people buying Amithlon will
> encourage developers who have moved away from Amiga to come back.
> PC owners are used to being able to get half their software for
> "free". UAE users encouraged the re-pirating of games software.
> Why will Amithlon users be any different ?
I think it will be somewhat different, because it's aimed at a different
type of user. Amithlon will mainly run productivity software, not
games. I think it's main contribution will be to help raise Amiga's
profile, and generate some revenue to put towards OS 4.2 development.
>> 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 :(
> It's always nice to hear news and progress from AI but the
> AmigaOne stuff was mainly an announcement about the previous
> announcement.
The statement about what was now working, how far they had actually
progressed was new. But no, there wasn't a great deal of new
information.
Cheers
Neil
without C people would code in Basi, Pasal and Obol
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