Amiga vs. Hyperion - Any updates?

[dammy]

PPC is far from dead.
Mind you, the Cell processor of the PS3 is PPC based, (as well as the processor of the Xbox 360, which is essentially a slimmed down Cell processor).
And AFAIK a new Cell processor has been released very recently.

PPC as a desktop CPU is dead and buried.  Who is left producing the Cell, Toshiba?  You have IBM pushing the Power CPU, but that's not a desktop CPU.  Freescale has changed it's focus to ARM, and I don't see any future for the AI/Hyperion nor MOS to remain in a dead Arch where they have to live off of used EOL machines or machines they are locked out of.  Can you?

[dammy]

Niether of which are going to happen - the platform is dead as a serious proposition. Hobbyists yes, professionals no.

As I said, without a truly biblical amount of cash injected into the Amiga, it will remain a purely hobbyist platform. Even with the offer of such cash, with the current legal nonsense going on it is pointless in the extreme to even think about.

Seriously, the Amiga will never become a viable platform again for professional development. I'm sorry, but that is the truth.

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Damnit... Piru did it better.

It's a hobby on it's death bed.  Unless your getting new people interested in the "Amiga" community, your population of users is declining.  There are only so many people interested in dealing with a 1980s-1990s OS on ancient hardware (or over priced, under preforming hardware).  You want to see Amiga Community's future, look at the pictures from AmiWest as that is the Amiga Community's destiny.

[dammy]

Open source or die. It's pretty obvious, I think, but seriously doubt that it will ever happen.

Why bother when we already have AROS in x86 and PPC.  I wouldn't be too suprised to see AROS on ARM either.