It sounds like good news, but being as you can get a 3+Ghz X86 chip for under $370
right now how fast will x86 be running when these PPC chips come out? Some where at 6 to 10GHZ? Maybe more?
It's great to have a choice other than X86 and I realize competition will only keep bringing the chip speeds up and prices down. I guess it's just that I feel like it would be nice to have Amiga back at the top of the heap again. I just see such a wonderful future for AmigaOS on X86 and most don't see it that way.
It's hard enough to get people to use a different OS other than Windows. When you compound the problem with them having to buy 'special' hardware that is no where near the price/performance of what they can get in X86 or in many cases 'already own' then it just seems rather difficult to anyone to ever convert.
So here's my question. Does anyone here think or see things like I do as far as: If I were to develope a decent OS that runs on most peoples current computers what are my chances of getting people to use it? Not good? What if I developed a decent OS, but it had to run on expensive hardware that people have to buy first? Now I think my chances would be somewhere in the range of 'not good to impossible'.
I know I know... AROS. It is getting better...maybe someday soon when it's more complete it will be my OS choice.
AmigaGuy
