New amiga coming out 2010..is this a wind up?

[Karlos]

I think you are lagging slightly behind current events, maybe :-)

The machine in question is is the AmigaOne X1000. All we know for sure is that it has a dual core PPC processor, possibly 64-bit (or 32-bit/PAE) as inferred from the presence of 4 DDR slots, 2 PCIe 16x slots (both run at half speed if each slot are populated), an XMOS "custom" chip (some sort of event-driven IO processor by the sound of it) and associated expansion slot and designed to run AmigaOS 4.x.

[Karlos]

(Reply move from wrong thread)

[Karlos]

sorry posted it in the wrong bit i just could belive this what do u think?

Speaking as a long term amiga user I'm always wary of "new hardware" news announcements. Until I see one in the wild, running OS4.x, the jury is out.

[Karlos]

Actually, Apple claims it didn't take a lot of work, because OS X was developed to run on Intel from Day 1 in parallel with the PPC version. It just wasn't publicized that they had an Intel version until Steve decided to ditch PPC.

That's not really a correct statement then. It clearly took just as "much" work as it did to create the PPC version, plus the additional work of integrating Rosetta.

[Karlos]

Actually it took zero effort. NeXTSTEP went 68k > x86 and never left at any point.

There's more to OSX than NeXTStep. They might have inherited that Objective C nightmare (yep, let's create a language by combining the conflicting syntaxes of two totally different ones together. Still, has some nice features, however fugly it is) from there, but the important stuff is from BSD.