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Offline AJCopland

Re: Amiga vs. Hyperion - Any updates?
« on: July 17, 2009, 01:07:16 PM »
Quote from: dammy;515937
PPC as a desktop CPU is dead and buried.  Who is left producing the Cell, Toshiba?  You have IBM pushing the Power CPU, but that's not a desktop CPU.  Freescale has changed it's focus to ARM, and I don't see any future for the AI/Hyperion nor MOS to remain in a dead Arch where they have to live off of used EOL machines or machines they are locked out of.  Can you?


I mostly agree. You're only finding PPC in SatNav and SetTop boxes these days. I know that you _can_ find PPC desktop machines but they're not exactly mainstream.

The Xbox360, PS3 and Wii all use PPC chips but again they're not a commodity that just anyone can use. They're for games only basically.
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Offline AJCopland

Re: Amiga vs. Hyperion - Any updates?
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2009, 03:43:26 PM »
Quote from: stefcep2;516133
Written by someone who couldn't work out what "snapshot" in the menu was for.  And he looked for a built in file manager, when anyone who's ever used an Amiga would have DOpus installed.

That's the problem isn't it "anyone who's ever used an Amiga". It's the same attitude that keeps Linux from being usable by anyone on the desktop, the developers and existing user are all used too it's fault and "know" what they need to do already.

New users are scorned and told to read the forums etc. It takes someone techy enough to get past all of that and start using it, by the time you've done so, you're one of those who already knows what extras you need.
Be Positive towards the Amiga community!