Bill McEwen

[Phantom]

Amiga Inc is just a name, it has nothing to do with the Amiga of old. Accept that and move on. Now you can choose to embrace Tao and follow Amiga Inc or you can do what we do, ignore Amiga inc.

Exactly.

My opinion is that AmigaOS must across the other side. This side is x86, if you want to survive. Look AROS for instance. In a couple of years it will be powerful!

[persia]

Good stuff here:

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/kent-wa/T6TE3BB2QIOPAK8OT

The reference the following sites:

http://www.merlancia.us/amigabk/replyresponsemotion.pdf

And more at:

http://www.merlancia.us/amigaauction/
http://www.merlancia.us/amiga-hare/
http://www.merlancia.us/amigabk/

BTW, nice car:

http://www.merlancia.us/amigaauction/billsnewcar.jpg

[adolescent]

persia wrote:
To be fair Amiga Inc is Garry Hare not Bill.  Amiga Inc is just KMOS rebranded, it has little or nothing to do with the original CBM or it's successors.  KMOS bought the Amiga name and Bill came along with it.

Amiga Inc (KMOS) has *never* produced anything that was "Amiga Compatible."  Amiga Anywhere is from a different deal TAO Group and has nothing to do with the original CBM and Amiga Inc.

Bill is the spokesman but all discussions are made by Garry.  Garry has made it clear through his actions that it was the TAO Group software he was interested in and the Amiga name.  That's it.  Bill, on the other hand has some feelings for the original Amiga, though what those feelings are isn't clear.

Umm, Garry Hare hasn't been at Amiga for some years.  He fled the sinking ship shortly after the t-shirts were sent out.  (You even posted a link to the court docs of Amiga vs. Garry Hare above.. did you read it?)

[adolescent]

persia wrote:
The main problem with PPC is that it's sole users are Game Consoles, which means it's development is in that line.  

:roll:   You can't get a console with a IBM POWER6.
 

[alexh]

persia wrote:
The main problem with PPC is that it's sole users are Game Consoles, which means it's development is in that line.

No they aren't. They are in everything from Set-top-box's to Phones, PDA's, routers, washing machines etc.

[smerf]

Hi,

@Krusher,

Go ahead, rub salt in the wounds, I deserve it, the only
reason I bought VISTA was because for once I wanted to be
the first on the block to own a new operating system by
microsoft, I waited 4 years before buying XP, probably will
use XP now until Windows 7 comes out, and then wait another
4 to 5 years to see how it acts before buying it. From now
on MicroSoft will have to prove to me that it is the OS
that I will be looking for before I give up my hard earned
money.

Anyway AmiKit on XP works well, and Ubuntu has now become
my main OS, wouldn't trust anything of importance on any
microsoft product. I just use windows xp for games, every
time I trust it to hold my pictures or music, windows xp
crashes and I lose it all. So now I use Ubuntu or my old
favorite Amiga 4000 which takes a lickin but keeps on tickin.
Anyhow my Amiga 4000, hasn't had a real crash since 1992, the
only time it crashes is when the operator breaks it, but the
Amiga is also very easy to back up with LHA and DiskMaster.

smerf

[smerf]

Hi,

@Tension

You are rite sir!

I spelled his mane wrong.

Sorry Bill

smerf

[redrumloa]

SamOS39 wrote:
Bill McEwan? is he that sweaty looking guy in my OS3.5 booklet?

 :roflmao:

No, that would have been Petro. OS3.5 pre-dates McBill.

[bloodline]

alexh wrote:

persia wrote:
The main problem with PPC is that it's sole users are Game Consoles, which means it's development is in that line.

No they aren't. They are in everything from Set-top-box's to Phones, PDA's, routers, washing machines etc.

Do you have any links? The only PPC based product (other than my PowerBook and my BlizzPPC) I've ever seen which wasn't an XBox was an old router I had... Everything else I've seen has been ARM based... I probably have at least 10 ARMs in my house alone! Oh and a MIPS device too...

[downix]

alexh wrote:

persia wrote:
The main problem with PPC is that it's sole users are Game Consoles, which means it's development is in that line.

No they aren't. They are in everything from Set-top-box's to Phones, PDA's, routers, washing machines etc.

And the new models have what I said that it needed 7 years ago, integrated northbridges.  Altho they're PCIe or just PCI, and I'd rather it be HT, but beggars can't be choosers.

[DonnyEMU]

As someone famous said in a YouTube Video,

"Leave Bill ALONE!", or was that Brittney.. :-D

[Trev]

http://penguinppc.org/ has a bit of info on mainstream PowerPC boxes. So does http://www.microprocessor.sscc.ru/powerpc-faq/. It's not like it's a new or exotic architecture. AIX, Linux, Mac OS, BeOS, Windows NT, VxWorks, QNX, OS/2, Solaris--all of these run (or ran) on PowerPC.

Trev

[dammy]

The second best selling microprocessor in the world today and he says it's dead!

Second?  I could see maybe fourth or so after ARM, MIPS, and x86.  Probably even further down the ladder with 6502 and 680x0 total sales thrown into the mix.  It's an OK embedded CPU, but let us not over value the worth of the CPU.

Dammy

[coldfish]

bloodline wrote:
[... I probably have at least 10 ARMs in my house alone! Oh and a MIPS device too...

Interesting thought...

Lets see, off the top, I have:

10x x86
4x  ARM
3x  68000
2x  PPC
2x  Z80
2x  6502
1x  SH-4

Just in actual computing devices, probably a crapload more in household things like my car, washing machine, mobile phones, DVD players ect?

[alexh]

bloodline wrote:
Do you have any links?

Everyones favourite STB for hacking Pay-TV the Dreambox:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreambox

There are countless others. You are right, ARM is the worlds best selling microprocessor, but PowerPC is right up there in second. It's not just in the GameCube, Wii, Xbox360 and PS3 :-)

[smerf]

Hi,

@alexh

Don't see how it could be the second best selling processor
in the world, when even Apple dropped it and upgraded to the
intel chip.

Have you looked at their new Leopard today?

This machine looks good, except for the price.

(yea, I know keeping up an old Amiga 4000 is just as
costly).

If the Amiga could have gone to the PPC about 10 years ago,
maybe it would have spearheaded more dev. by motorola, but
at this point motorolla has dropped all processor dev. and
has moved over to cell phones.

smerf