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Offline takemehomegrandma

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Re: IBM PPC970 64bit CPU at CeBIT
« on: March 13, 2003, 09:11:42 PM »
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Note that IA-64 was based HP's PA-RISC. Secondly, what was the price for Power 4 CPUs again?


Weren't CBM thinking of making next gen Amiga's using PA-RISC processors?


Yes that was the plan for a while, AFAIR.
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Re: IBM PPC970 64bit CPU at CeBIT
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2003, 10:16:40 PM »
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lempkee wrote:
Even if we bloated os4 or mos, 2.5ghz would be a heavy overkill on our beloved oS's...i cant even imagine what we could use such an power for atm...first of all we need an OS...then some games and apps....then we can think of this power .)

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I partly agree (but you should perhaps say "overLIFE" instead ;-)). As a "normal" user you will get very far with just a G3 @ 600MHz when using a lean and unbloated OS. That is one big thing that differs AmigaOS/MorphOS from Windows. On the Wintel platform the situation is different. Intel/AMD releases a new powerful CPU and then Microsoft releases a new even more bloated version of windows that sucks up all the juice it can get. So in the end the user find himself using a new, powerful, system that in real life feels no faster than his old one.

But even on a lean and unbloated OS there will allways be those applications that simply can not get enough of horse power, such as 3D rendering software, so ...
MorphOS is Amiga done right! :)