What's the point really? We've been waiting to migrate to a modern CPU
for ages, and when we finally get close to the goal, a bunch of whiners pops
up to tell us it's the end of the world if we do so. What's the point of
that? What are you trying to achieve? Do you really think AmigaOS4 and
access to new PPC hardware will harm the platform? Of course it won't.
Point one: When I buy a computer, I do it because I want certain
tasks to be done by running computer software. I believe a PPC based Amiga
to be capable of running the software I want very satisfactorily. If
you're in it for the MHz, go buy yourself a bloody radio transmitter.
Point two: There is already a base of PPC based software
for the Amiga. Which I, and probably some others as well,
want to keep using.
Point three: A lot of work has been done already to move towards a
PPC native AmigaOS. Why should we throw that away? So that we
can stay with the 68k a while longer, and then when AmigaOS4 x86
is almost ready, we can start complaining about that, and throw
that work away too?
You want to have x86 hardware? Fine. Be aware that AmigaOS doesn't
run natively on it, though. That's a fact, and no whining about how
poor the PPC processor family is will change it.
Kay
