Cell CPU as the next thing?

[danbeaver]

I don't want to get into another argument, but like parallel processing, would not implimenting a really useful compiler be so difficult as to be avoided.  Great at one problem (Photoshop plug-in, playing chess, or acting as a server), but near impossible to apply across the board.

[danbeaver]

Does this topic really belong int the Amiga Hardware Section?

[danbeaver]

Folks, granted this is a "hardware" issue, but does it really pertain to the Amiga?

As in, "Amiga Hardware Issues amd Discussion"

[danbeaver]

Right! And was established earlier, no one is going to write a useful compiler. Plus the only changes in the past 20 years is better support for a 20 year old processor design (PPC), with Ultimate PPC still in development and using the same PPC design. Cell computing needs to reach the mainstream somewhere else before anyone would ever attempt it on the Amiga.

Ergo, this topic belongs in just, "Hardware Related Discussion."

[danbeaver]

The Playstation is a "Play Station," with no higher expectation to replace a desktop computer; many only consider the Amiga as the same thing -- so go for it!

Those supercomputers run one Program: weather forecasting, atomic bomb simulations, DNA analysis, car crash results, and chess. They also could not replace a desktop computer.

If you can not tell the difference except by vague analogy, then this subtopic in the forum could include tuning you '68 Camaro's to use unleaded gas; it is hardware and you can carry an Amiga in it

[danbeaver]

Good luck running 89 octane in your Camaro!

[danbeaver]

Now think about the contemporaries of the Amiga circa 1986 (more so because of the scalability of the A2000); we are talking about the Mac Plus, the Compaq Portable II, the Tandy Color Computer, the Apple II gs, and by the end of the year there are 386 based computers.  How many of these computers today support USB, networking (Internet & Web access), advanced graphics cards, IDE/SCSI/CF usage and as we move into the A3000/4000 a Power PC, PCI cards, and the rest.  How many are out there being used today for games, productivity, image manipulation, et cetera.

"From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered, We few, we happy few, we band of brothers." -- well not really.....

[danbeaver]

I revised my post.

"IBM wouldn't beat AMD when the CPU is nearly thrown in for free "

How's that 89 Octane doin' for ya?

[danbeaver]

PowerPC emulator runs fine.

So this thread is now about hardware that can run an Amiga emulator? Or should we include hardware (like an easel) that can hold up an Amiga poster?