alex wrote:
Now I read the threads that after all the development on AOS 4, the best I can get is a PPC "feeling" like a fast '060. Well I have that, so what's the exercise for?
AmigaOS may not need a PPC, but applications do. I don't think it's true that all Amiga apps suck (eg, I've yet to find an email client I prefer over YAM), but getting modern applications such as web browers, DTP etc, is going to require more than 68k.
Now, I'm not hatng on the PPC move, in fact, I'm loving it, but it seems to me that all this talk of memory protection, blah blah blah, we're missing the point that it's the application that we really need and an updrade to the APIs for these applications.
AmigaOS 4 is supposed to have improved APIs. Some of these APIs (eg, Mesa) are going to benefit from faster CPUs.
