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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #29 from previous page: February 15, 2008, 12:41:21 AM »
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

I have no idea what your talking about, so here is a doggy with a small pancake on his head.

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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #30 on: February 15, 2008, 08:34:26 AM »
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Krusher wrote:

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Flashlab wrote:

Don't know about McEwan but McEwen has screwed us from the beginning.



Irvin Gould did that with bringing in the person who shall not be named  :madashell:



Hmmm - if you want me to understand whom you're tlking about I see no other way aside from naming the person...
 :roll:
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #31 on: February 15, 2008, 09:29:40 AM »
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Hmmm - if you want me to understand whom you're tlking about I see no other way aside from naming the person...
 :roll:


He was a consultant who was brought in by Irving Gould. Irving was looking for ways to get rid of Thomas Rattigan.

For some reason Irving and Thomas (CEO of Commodore) really didn't play nice together. History has placed the blame with Irving.

This consultant made the report built to order, and reccomended that Rattigan got fired, and Irvin was happy to oblige, and rewarded him who shall not be named with the job has CEO.
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #32 on: February 15, 2008, 09:55:07 AM »
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@Tension

Mr. McEwan is struggling to keep Amiga Inc. afloat,



What he stated about AInc's financial status during the Kent deal suggests otherwise...

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smerf wrote:

...wish him the best of luck.



You want me to wish someone luck who frauded me?
Really makes me think about your character...

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smerf wrote:

...Bill is a business man...



 :-D  :lol:  :laughing:
Muahahaha!
Really a good one...

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...trying to keep his company going,...



...by scamming his audience(s)!

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smerf wrote:

yes he is on our side



 :-D  :lol:  :laughing:
Muahahaha!
Annother good one...

You should really drop in as "Büttenredner" here in Cologne during the Karneval season - that might mean a new career you... ;-)

Hre only knows one side - and that's his own side and has not the least in common with the Amiga community side...
Wake up, man!

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but he has bigger fish to fry than trying to bring a new
Amiga Computer into the world trying to compete with
PC computers, think about it, it just not going to happen.



Already thought about that.
Maybe here's your misunderstanding.
Amiga Computers were never meant to compete with "industrial standard" PC computers (although they have indeed outacted them until - lets say - the mid ninetees), they were meant as "Home Computers" from the very beginning (no memory protection, no multiuser support, ...).

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He is currently engaged in writing software programs...



He's in no way qualified for coding tasks, AFAIK.
He's a former truck driver and nothing that has been made public so far tells he'd be able to write a single line of code...

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...he owns the industry and can shut your computer down at any time unless you pay him dearly.



He does not own "the industry" and he's definitely up to now not able to shut down my A4kPPC in any way...

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Case in point, I bought VISTA,



Lots of fun with it...
 :roll:

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my computer has been shut down several times for reactivation because I added new things to it (last one being a HP printer driver for my printer) now I will have to call (8th time in less than a year) some turkey in India, to have my VISTA reactivated for the 8th time. How much longer that will last I don't know because being a computer hardware hacker, I buy new uptodate hardware every couple of months. So MicroSoft has total control of my computer, and dictates what I can or can't do with it.



That's why I said "Lots of fun with it" above...

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So if Bill was smart,



Which "Bill" are you talking about - McEwing or Gates?

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he would currently take the old Amiga OS and port it over to PC computers to boot up from the start and get software people to ride his train on the Amiga OS.



Ever heard of AROS?
It' even "Open Source", AFAIK...

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Good Luck Bill McEwan, hope you read this and hopefully
you are still on Amigians side.



You whish a scammer luck? Makes me think about your character again...
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #33 on: February 15, 2008, 10:43:22 AM »
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(yea, I know keeping up an old Amiga 4000 is just as
costly).



Hmmmmm - I put together my Amiga4000PPC back in 1997/98, where the most expensive parts were the MoBo, the CyberstormPPC, the Micronik BigTower and the CybervisionPPC.

Two years ago I bought an Mediator PCI busboard (plus PCI cards) for it - but that was not that expensive.

Aside from that there were no significant costs to keep it up and running up to today...

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If the Amiga could have gone to the PPC about 10 years ago,
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Actually it did that over 11 years ago (CyberstormPPC hit the market in November 1997)...
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #34 on: February 15, 2008, 10:48:22 AM »
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Dandy wrote:

Hmmm - if you want me to understand whom you're tlking about I see no other way aside from naming the person...
 :roll:



He was a consultant who was brought in by Irving Gould. Irving was looking for ways to get rid of Thomas Rattigan.

For some reason Irving and Thomas (CEO of Commodore) really didn't play nice together. History has placed the blame with Irving.

This consultant made the report built to order, and reccomended that Rattigan got fired, and Irvin was happy to oblige, and rewarded him who shall not be named with the job has CEO.



Thanks for telling the story - but still I have no clue whom you're talking about (I didn't follow the Commodore internals very closely back then)...
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #35 on: February 15, 2008, 11:03:35 AM »
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Thanks for telling the story - but still I have no clue whom you're talking about (I didn't follow the Commodore internals very closely back then)...


His name is mentioned here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Gould

Also a funny quote:
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A joke from the time says that if Commodore would sell KFC they would market it as "warm dead bird"
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #36 on: February 15, 2008, 11:15:35 AM »
The most famous game console of all - Deep Blue - was PPC based (sort of!)  :crazy:
IBM does a pretty brisk trade in System p servers last time I checked, not exactly a game console.
 

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« Reply #37 on: February 15, 2008, 12:22:47 PM »
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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...

Xbox used Intel, the 360 uses PPC, as did the Gamecube, as the Wii does.  Cell has a PPE core...
Coincidentally, the Wii has an ARM core inside it's Hollywood chip...
 

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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #38 on: February 15, 2008, 12:54:38 PM »
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    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...




This digital set top box from Maximum has PPC and it runs on Linux. It has hard drive, usb and ethernet. Perhaps a good basis for OS4.0?

http://www.cantab.se/MaximumC-8000CX-CI%5B1%5D.pdf
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #39 on: February 15, 2008, 02:21:34 PM »
Never the less you are far more limited in dealing with IBM rather than Intel or AMD.  IBM's chips are designed for things other than computers, so you'll never have a G5 laptop for example.

It just makes sense to go with industry standard parts and make your difference in the OS.  Linux, OS X and MS Windows all run on the same equipment but there's a ton of difference between them.

It's all really hypothetical though since the company that is leasing the Amiga name has no real interest in Amiga computers...
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #40 on: February 15, 2008, 02:52:13 PM »
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To be fair Amiga Inc is Garry Hare not Bill.


That is a strange setup considering KMOS/Amiga inc sued Garry Hare.

IFAIK Garry Hare won....
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #41 on: February 15, 2008, 04:30:20 PM »
I always asumed ARM was ppc as it does seem to run ppc software ?!?!?  :-?  :-?  :-?  O well i should read more
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #42 on: February 15, 2008, 04:47:14 PM »
So let's get the story.  Garry Hare created  a company called KMOS, Bill transfered Amiga bit by bit to KMOS, when the transfer was complete Bill let that Amiga Inc go bankrupt and KMOS was renamed Amiga Inc.  Bill moved to the new Amiga Inc, pushed Garry aside and sued him?

How did Garry get pushed aside if he owned the company?

Why did Bill sue him?

Did Bill ever get his Matserati back after bankruptcy?

Why actually runs the company that today is called Amiga Inc?

Why are they so interested in the Amiga name but show little or no interest in the Amiga computer?
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #43 on: February 15, 2008, 04:47:17 PM »
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I always asumed ARM was ppc as it does seem to run ppc software ?!?!?    O well i should read more


Try Wiki page for more info.  Porting to ARM is always a good thing, even for AROS.

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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #44 on: February 15, 2008, 04:56:15 PM »
@Colin_Camper

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IFAIK Garry Hare won....


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*** May 18, 2006: The New York Judge dismisses Amiga's complaint, arguing that ""The language of the Agreement could not be more clear that it was [Amiga's] responsibility, not [Hare's] responsibility, to secure the $1,000,000.""


I would use the term "slam dunk", not just won.
The judge's comment is synonymous in court speak to "why the hell have you wasted the court's time with this nonsense."

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