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I believe PPC was the past future of amiga. I think they should think about rewriting the os for x86 and cheap up to date hardware. I do not believe amiga was ever about the hardware, 68000 was just the most practical at the time amiga was introduced. I think if Jay Miner had a pentium or xeon available at the time he would have used it.
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Re: Do you approve of PPC (in some form) as the future of Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2010, 03:03:30 PM »
I don't understand people that say Amiga is about custom processors working together. That is what the amiga was but, that is the only way they could do it much like the c64, atari. They did that because they did not have off the shelf components that could achieve the performance they desired. Now you can get a processor with fpu, mmu, gpu, integrated that would blow them away. I think amiga if ported to x86 on modern hardware much like windows, Mac, Linux may not take over the marketplace it could certainly be successful. People, especially younger users are always looking for new stuff. Apple changed to x86 because ppc was no longer a viable option. Hardware does not make you money anymore, Software sales drive hardware sales, and generate profits. Look at the console market, Microsoft, sony, nintendo, make most of there money on software and basically give the consoles away. Amiga should really concentrate on developing some software applications, games, etc for there OS if they want to be successfull.
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