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Offline Kalvan

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Re: If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?
« on: January 05, 2012, 05:32:55 PM »
Well, with just $200,000, I would probably give 1/2 that money to the Natami folks, and wish them well, and 1/2 on a bounty to port AROS to it (including the new SAGA features).
 
If you up it to $500,000, I'd try to get my hands on one of the Walker prototypes and hook it up to as many data analyzers as I could find, and then send all the data to the Natami folks.
 
Frankly, this exercise needs at least $10,000,000 for anyone to start doing some serious dreaming, or better yet $50,000,000+.
 

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Re: If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2012, 06:47:46 PM »
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I would port it to DEC Alpha and focus on that, to spite all parties in the CPU debate.

Three problems with that:
 
1. Amiga OS 3.x is written primarily in 68k assembler, and needs the custom chips. Plus, the FORBID call rearing its ugly head.
 
2. Amiga OS 4.x and on will be controlled by Hyperion, who will never let anyone port it to anything else.
 
3. The only people using using Alpha nowadays are the Chinese, and if they won't license the Loongson 3 series (Which was designed as a desktop chip to begin with) to outsiders on smaller nodes on fabs outside of China, what makes you think they will license their HPC pride and joy?
 
And that's only the technical problems. There's still all the expense of actually designing the motherboard and tooling up.
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