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Offline roger_ramjetTopic starter

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amigaone cpu ??
« on: May 11, 2003, 05:07:41 PM »
just a quick question for u amigans out there.

I was just wondering if anybody knows why PPC was the chosen platform for the new amigas? i love all cpus they all have there own advantages and disadvantages but i just dont understand why PPC was chosen . Dont flame me but i would have thought that X86 would have been a better performance/value choice . Eg If X86 was chosen the upcoming athlon64(Hammers) would be used ... 64 bit amiga !? .. X86 is also more available , better price/performance and would allow better market penetration ... Try and explain what a PPC CPU is to someone who doesnt understand computers .  Also wouldnt an X86 path allow for improved hardware eg PCI-EXPRESS and so on and so-forth. Anyway PPC is the choice and i really hope it succeeds but im just curious ? thanx  :-?
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Re: amigaone cpu ??
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2003, 03:08:34 PM »
ok i started this thread to see what people would have to say so i could get a better idea of why ppc was chosen, however i made a mistake in my question. Most people are concentrating on the actual CPU , i meant why was the ppc PLATFORM chosen. Yes i have read with interest all of the above messages but can i please clarify . I believe that X86 would have been better again for price/performance ratio , peripheral support. Something this ppc platform misses out on are features such as dual channel ddr ram controllers , integrated ram controllers ( future Athlon 64) , better ...
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Re: amigaone cpu ??
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2003, 03:12:31 PM »
support for SMP , pci-express , higher FSB and so on and so forth . That is just the hardware . There is also much more availability of code and code optimizations ( SSE ,SSE2 , 3DNow etc) for programmers to jump straight over and utilize these with amigaos.  The amiga would not necessarily turn into another *nix or doze platform cos we could learn from there bloated mistakes.  We could also learn to integrate succesfull ideas like WineX on linux so amigans could have the latest games without having the rest of the other two bloated os's tagging below.
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