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[commodorejohn]

The 8640 would definitely had been an option. It is a rather expensive ship, but still way cheaper than teh PA6T according to some AEon information which was about 500 US$ for each PA6T.

Can you provide a link to that information? $500 for a CPU (particularly one designed for embedded systems) is farkin' ridiculous, that's what P3s cost new in 1999. Hope they didn't pay that kind of cash for all the parts...

[commodorejohn]

Yikes...

[commodorejohn]

Interesting opinion, but false.

Both AppliedMicro and Freescale continue to develop new PPC processors.

No current ARM processor outperforms even the dated G5.

Freescale has announce the re-introduction of AltiVec instructions to many of its PPC product lines and one processor that has as many as 20 virtual cores.

But everybody says PPC is dead! If it's repeated so much, it must be true, right?

[commodorejohn]

And that is not true. We all know about Moana but they decided not to follow that path, I respect their decision, it's their business and their decision so there is NO OS4 for macs.

You agree that they decided not to port to affordable Mac hardware, but you don't think it's true that they choose not to port to affordable Mac hardware?

[commodorejohn]

All in all they run the OS4 show...

Well, obviously, but that doesn't make their decisions good.

[commodorejohn]

This is what really stops the Amiga from coming back...there is no unity.

Wouldn't matter if I were unified - I simply cannot afford $3K for a computer.

[commodorejohn]

In reality, I guess in closer to TheDaddy's point of view then takemehomegrandma. I'd like to see continued development of PPC systems. I have no interest in moving to X86 and would like to see a delay in considering a move to ARM until that platform develops more.

Quite so - I just don't know how likely that's going to be...