AmigaUpdate, Objectivity Lost.

[dammy]

Poster: downix Date: 2003/8/11 23:02:51

x86 is a failed route,

That's the reason it accounts for 97% of total computers sold?  Give me that type of failure any day.

you'd be killed due to competition from all fronts. On PowerPC you can control the hardware better. You can limit your competition. Plus, PPC is cheaper than x86, and the new 970 is faster than x86 too.

Limit your competition maybe good for the company, it's not good for the consumers/end users.  The cheaper/faster is yet to be proven vs a like CPU/mobo.  Once both are out in the wild, then we can see what the numbers are like for cheaper and faster.  I have a feeing, it won't be PPC.

Dammy

[dammy]

Poster: strobe Date: 2003/8/12 1:13:26

..oh if only Genesi weren't around...then I could pretend AmigaOS 4 isn't late...

Not quiet, AROS is still out there clawing and scratching it's way into the OS world.  So that alone would remind you OS4 is what, "On schedule and Rock'n" plus two years?

Dammy

[dammy]

Poster: DanDude Date: 2003/8/14 2:19:05

Amigaguy said:
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If MorphOS or AmigaOS are ever really going to prosper then they need to go x86.


DUDE! x86 IS LIKE A MICROWAVE OVEN!!! You DON'T want to play with an unreliable set you cook eggs with!

You better take a good look at those 970s before you go on about power/heat of x86.  Want a conventional oven made of CPUs, go make them with Power4s.  

Seriously--I used x86 pc's of today and they crash more than my Amiga!! I'm DEAD serious!

Use a better OS then.  I typically have systems up for more then 90 days and would have better up time if power failures didn't drain the UPSs before power is restored.  There are very few reasons for a x86 to be rebooted, one is power failure, second is hardware upgrade, third is rebooting into a different OS, and the last is for kernel upgrades.  

Dammy