Amiga's Grand Plans Revealed

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One thing to point out is that there are a number of typos, that Bill can't really be held accountable for, and the interview itself was posted not by an Amiga Inc.  employee.

Perhaps it's worth pointing out to Amiga Inc.  the errors on the interview so they can have them corrected.

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@Allen

While I am not trying to defened all of the obvious mistakes in that interview, there is also some confusion over whether or not they are talking about Classic systems (with PPC), AmigaOnes, or AA/DE

The interview seems to have blurred the lines (which is why it needs clarification/correcting.  Hopefully it'll be sorted out soon enough.

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Bill McEwen: OS4 is the next version of the Amiga OS, it's a total rewrite of the operating system. It's brand new from the ground up, rewritten for the PPC hardware.

Eh? As said before this is wrong...and directly contradicted by later statement...this is unacceptable.

Technically it's practically true with exec being totally rewritten (ExecSG) from the ground up to include extra features such as memory protection, virtual mem etc.  Plus there really isn't much left of the 68k native code.

Also where does he think that there are 7 million of us?

He's reffering to a potential target market of ex. Amiga users.  i.e. those whoe once enjoyed the system and may consider coming back.  While I don't believe anywhere near as many as that would consider it, they are the first that should be targetted.