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Offline gafstuTopic starter

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Amiga OS - Why on custom architecture?
« on: June 14, 2005, 01:37:47 PM »
Guys, You may be  able to answer a question that’s bugging me.

Why does the architecture for OS4.0 have to be custom?  This makes it expensive and possibly less reliable than mass produced alternatives.  Why not build the Amiga OS to run on a IBM PC style architecture, then all the hardware availability issues will go away??
 

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Re: Amiga OS - Why on custom architecture?
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2005, 06:26:38 PM »
Would it not be sensible to base the OS design to work on a selected range of x86 mobos, and cards etc, giving the benefit of cheap/common x86 architecture whilst still having a fixed hardware platform?

Sounds like they have to sort something which is comercially viable soon to keep this project going, as i think everyone will admit - the amiga enthusiasts are the only people who are going to buy any new amiga systems for the forseable future?