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68k to PPC ports (30-Apr-97 )

    Dr. Peter Kittel says that Motorola has some tool to convert 68k source into PPC source to offer already, but that This is an approach when you want to see something at all, soon. So this only works for a few, well-written programs, while much hand fiddling and the guy/people who had done the original is required for compilcated programs. The AmigaOS source is said to use dirty tricks like in the 6502 days, like jumping into the middle of another statement to save a few bytes in the executable. Such cases are nightmares for automatic conversion.

Hardware banging? (30-Apr-97 )

    Dave Haynie says banging the Amiga chips is wasted time for anything commercial. Draggable screens are one of the least useful features of the Amiga, he doesn't use separate screens anymore either (but then he's running his A3000 at 1180x900). Sliding screens are just eye candy, they're not necessary. He then speaks about games, system conform vs. banging, game API's... I said the Amiga's approach [hardware banging in older games, etc.] was very, very wrong. He thinks there are still hardware hitting games and demos being uploaded to Aminet ecause you have kids there. Free stuff doesn't need to worry about working at all, [..] real game people are writing for other machines.

Petro T. no good? (30-Apr-97 )

    Rainer Benda says one of the problems with Petro T. is that he doesn't accept persons in similar positions to his own, one example being Mr Domayer (who is now head at PIOS). Rainer says the only solution would be to get rid of Petro, but to achieve this one would need to mail Gateway, which would be fairly difficult; first reason being that Rainer would be considered as Ex-AT employee seeking for revenge, second reason being that nobody really knows what Petro does. Petro is smart enough to give only as much information as really necessary, so that people get the impression that they would be lost without him. Rainer thinks that, despite Gateway, chances for a good future are very low, due to the reasons above.

PIOS One and Phase 5 comments (29-Apr-97 )

    Joern Plewka comments on the PIOS One and on the A\Box. He says it makes no sense to hate the PIOS One, because, after all, Haynie and Kittel are working on it, those two being very respectable persons. He then proceeds to say that he doesn't think that Phase5 cards are too expensive, but that the Amiga itself is showing its age. On the other side, the Phase5 (PowerUp) approach might not be a good idea, since the (patched) OS might slow things down severely. The post also includes statements about the "Mac version" Pios One, about PCI cards, MSIE, Aminet, AROS; but since my space here is limited I can't go into details.

A1200 in the trash (28-Apr-97 )

    Am irritating post comes from "anton". He says he just found an A1200 in the trash. Should we now be thankful because there is a new user out there, or should we begin to worry if the time has already come to throw Amigas away...

ASM vs. C in the Amiga (27-Apr-97 )

    Olaf Barthel gives detailed explanations about what code of the AmigaOS is in C and which is in ASM. He also explains why ASM isn't always the best choice: A project as large as an OS is very complex, and with nothing but ASM you would end up having a complex systems that is hard to maintain, whereas C code is much "cleaner", more organized and easier to verify.

PIOS news (27-Apr-97 )

    There are updated announcements on the PIOS web page. There are now three machines that are announced, the TransAm (603e, pOS, BeOS), the Maxxtreme (TransAm with Mac ROMS and MacOS) and the Keenya, a MacOS clone based on the Motorola Tanzania motherboard.

Custom chipset or not? (26-Apr-97 )

    Concerning the question whether future Amigas should have a custom chipset, Dave Haynie gives an example.
    You can't tell by looking if I have one or two hearts, or two, four, or six chambered hearts, or whether my heart is in good shape, or plaqued with fat. You figure I'm a human by the surface stuff. It's the same with the Amiga: the hardware is the organs; you assume something about these organs when you see the Amiga nameplate. Usually you're right, but there are these really fast machines out there, which are pretty much the same as always, only way faster. Those bad boys have alien six chambered hearts, courtesy of Phase 5 or VillageTronic. They still have the same skeleton, same flesh, same musclature, same mind. Then again, a few have been training their brains on one of those Altair-IV brain test machines (got '060 card), or even alien brain transplants (PowerUps).

Percentage of ASM in the AmigaOS (26-Apr-97 )

    Andy Finkel says that, as having run the OS departement after 1.2 until 2.1, he thinks most of the source code is in C, the main exceptions being Exec, the low level devices and small portions of graphics and intuition. He adds that often ASM was not chosen because of performance, but because of what language the module owner preferred.

No AmigaOS porting by others (23-Apr-97 )

    According to Dr. Peter Kittel, Amiga International estimate the AmigaOS the most important part of the Gateway takeover. AI agreed with the Gateway management that the AmigaOS sources should not be given to other persons/companies for porting. This probably means that there will only be licenses for the complete (already ported) OS.

Amiga Magazin not credible? (23-Apr-97 )

    In addition to the accusion of faking interviews, Amiga Magazin also made several mistakes in their texts about the PIOS One, says Dirk Hartstein. According to the AMag, the machine would be costing 1500 DM, real price is 3000 DM. They also state that it ran at the CeBIT and was already produced right now, both of which are of course false.

Too many MODs? (22-Apr-97 )

    Paul thinks that Aminet is becoming over-run with MOD tunes. He thinks all MODs should be banned from Aminet immediately, as it is for Amiga software and not for music. [Paul, whoever you are, I certainly agree with you. -Y]

Haynie comments on current Amigas (22-Apr-97 )

    Dave Haynie thinks that the only successful 68k Amigas at the moment would be a $200 A1200 or a A1200 with 060; where the first would lose money whereas the other would be a 6-9 month project. Just putting existing models back into production doesn't save the Amiga. ESCOM did that. He says a 68k card for the PIOS One is not complicated, but will need at least three months of software development. But only GW2K can do this, it would require changes to Exec and other OS level code to do at all.

Fake P.T. interview 2 (22-Apr-97 )

    Robert Wahnsiedler confirms that the Amiga Magazin interview with Petro T. is a fake. Robert says he spoke to Petro at the "Magische Tage in Trier" and that Petro is considering legal proceedings against Amiga Magazin.

Fake P.T. interview? (21-Apr-97 )

    According to German AmigaPlus Petro T. denied having given the Amiga Magazine interview. He then said that prices [for the new old Amigas] are not fixed yet [which is exactly the opposite of what the 'original' interview said]. So either Petro T. is lying and does regret telling the AMag that much, or Amiga-Magazine 'invented/faked' an interview.

(Un)finished projects at Commodore (21-Apr-97 )

    Dave Haynie posts an enumeration of all the projects he worked on at Commodore and informs which one was actually implemented, which one was killed and which one survived partly.

Satirical comments on Phase5 (20-Apr-97 )

    Gert Rene Schmidt posted his comments on a recent Phase5 press release. Among others, he points out that Phase5 give the Easter vacation as an excuse for delays, and asks whether they also make 3 month vacations in summer then. He then comments the fact that there is no A1200 version yet, that Phase5 can't even translate 4 pages (of a text which they haven't probably written yet). He concludes that the press release is a lot of propaganda and not much informative content.

Avoid Fourth Level Developments (20-Apr-97 )

    You should avoid Fourth Level Developments at all costs, says Dave Haynie. They cheat their customers, they cheated Dave with DiskSalv and OIC with their DICE compiler. Avoid these guys at all costs. Tell your friends, neighbors, Romans, and countrymen. Write the magazines. My fondest wish is to see these guys go out of business, lose their shirts, and suffer in poverty.

Should Petro T. retire? (20-Apr-97 )

    Rainer Benda thinks it's time that Petro T. retires. Petro admits that the Amiga is getting behind the competition, but yet does not want to lower the prices. Rainer predicts a bankruptcy within 6 or 12 months, if Petro keeps the current prices. How much Petro does it take to kill the Amiga completely?

Drink some American beer (18-Apr-97 )

    Dave Haynie replies to a pessimistic post, saying that that person should listen to some good rock music. And drink some American beer. According to Dave, stagnation eventually breeds complacency, that's when the underground pulls one over on the establishment. He thinks Microsoft weren't just caught with their pants down with their Microsoft Network, they were caught naked with the neighbor's underage daughter. Then, less seriously again, he suggests that the pessimist should immediately run out and get some Nine Inch Nails CDs and then go see David Lynch's "Lost Highway"....

New Amigas? (18-Apr-97 )

    Rainer Benda says there should be an interview with Petro T. in [German] AmigaPlus 6/97, where it will be announced that there may be a new Amiga International Amiga model for Christmas. No technical informations are known. Rainer thinks this is only Petro T. pokering too high, thinking that he can get rid of all A1200's until then. Additionally, releasing a new machine for 12/97 is highly improbable, as there even aren't any specs yet.

Gateway News (18-Apr-97 )

    According to C. Potter, Gateway is still waiting for the final approval from the German bankruptcy court to complete the acquisition of the assets of Amiga Technologies. Gateway 2000 is working hard to explore how to expand the world of Amiga. Further communications regarding their strategy may be made during a press conference at the World of Amiga in London (17.5-18.5).

Dr. Peter Kittel (18-Apr-97 )

    Dr. Peter Kittel's doctor title comes from Physics. His dissertation should be available in all german "Universitätsbibliothek". He says it was nothing earth-shaking, but ut includes a nice chapter about number crunching on a CBM 8032.

Lots of A1200's... (18-Apr-97 )

    Sven Luebke reports that one of his friends works for the security company that is surveying the Ex-Commodore storage area in Braunschweig. Apparently it's full of A1200's...

Petro T. (18-Apr-97 )

    Achim Grosshans replies to an Anti-Petro mail and says that at the Amiga-Mazed2 meeting in Heilbronn he [Petro] didn't even recognize Haage's StormC, but asked if this was the pOS.

Amiga International news (16-Apr-97 )

    Ben Clarke forwards a mail from Petro Tyschtschenko which says they will not start again producing A1200's, since they still have some in stock. Petro then continues to say that are open minded for a lot of models for AMIGA International. VisCorp is out and ESCOM is bankruptcy.....So long live AMIGA under GATEWAY 2000.

A coincidence? (15-Apr-97 )

    Robert J Goos thinks it is no coincidence that both Microsoft and Gateway bought companies whose machines are quite capable of set-top Internet stuff (WebTV and the Amiga respectively). He doesn't think this is a coincidence.

Differences between AT and Gateway being bought (15-Apr-97 )

    Jason Compton says there's a big difference between Gateway buying the Amiga and Compaq buying Gateway. Gateway was able to get the Amiga in a closed-bidding proceeding for merchandise and technology that had been lying more or less dormant for months, whereas Gateway is an actively traded concern, and a vibrant one at that. Compaq would have to pay SO MUCH MONEY as to probably erase any gain they might get from having Gateway in their stable, so to speak.

Amiga integration (15-Apr-97 )

    Don Romero writes he doesn't get the impression that Gateway plan to integrate (absorb) the Amiga into the existing Gateway corporate structure. They said they wouldn't let the Amiga technology die, they didn't say they would enhance their current PC line by integrating Amiga parts and by using interactiveness. Everything indicates that the Amiga will be handled by Petro and Amiga Technologies/International, maybe the name Gateway will never be prominently mentioned. He points out that all feedback should be directed to the same old place - not to Gateway's European offices.

Gateway not bought by Compaq (13-Apr-97 )

    Jason Compton confirms that Gateway 2000 will not be bought by Compaq. Actually, it was a rehashed rumor when Compaq said they wanted to buy another direct marketer of PCs, people remembered that there was a Gateway rumor a few months ago and got all excited again.

Amiga Hardware dreams (13-Apr-97 )

    Dave Haynie gives a small description of the many projects and suggestions people sent to Commodore. These were pretty wacky, rarely of much value. He says most of the letters were written by young people, sounding very naive, often hand-written and not even layouted as formal business letter. Not to say there might not be good ideas in there. That's exactly why I read everything that got sent to me at C=, even though it mostly just useful for laughs. And, as a suggestion to anybody who wants to get creative: H.G. Wells didn't know the right way to build a rocket architecture, but others did eventually get to the moon. Always follow your dreams..

Amiga niche market: Realtime applications (13-Apr-97 )

    One of the areas, where the Amiga is better than other computers is everything related to realtime. One of the examples is Scala, which needs a 166 MHz Pentium to achieve the same realtime results as on a 14 MHz A1200. Admitedly, the Amiga misses some wipes, but on the PC the OS is constantly interupting other applications, while on the Amia, one can concentrate on the animation, as there is no OS interrupting the playback.

Compaq rumour not true (13-Apr-97 )

    John Owen-Jones says that the Compaq rumour was by a brain dead person who failed to notice that what he was reading was a two year old article.

Compaq taking over Gateway? (12-Apr-97 )

    Apparently, there was a rumor that Compaq might try to take over Gateway 2000. [very improbable!]

Getting LucasArt to port a game (12-Apr-97 )

    George Noel presents a way which may make LucasArts listen to port a game. Apparently, there are still copies of Monkey Island 2 for sale ($10), directly via LucasArts. Now if everybody who doesn't own the game yet would write a nice letter to LucasArts, ask for Monkey Island 3, and include the $10 for v2; perhaps LucasArts would consider portung it. This may or may not work, but for $10 you really can't go wrong. ;-)

PIOS schedule & news (12-Apr-97 )

    The PIOS ONE release (for normal users) is planned for "mid 97", says Dr. Peter Kittel. They consider working together with G2000, as they would very much like to get our hands on the real AmigaOS. In fact, they already work together with other Amiga companies, for example their first hardware is already built at QuikPak.

Escom A4000T IDE boot fix (12-Apr-97 )

    Gert Rene Schmidt reports that at DeltaGraph'X they found a hardware solution for the problem that occurs in Escom A4000T models. On these machines, you can't boot from IDE drives and often the IDE drives are only available after a reset. He says that neither software hacks nor jumper settings help, so they did their own hardware; which took them one week to do.

Cost reducing (11-Apr-97 )

    Dr. Peter Kittel says cost reduction was investigated at AT times for the A1200, with not much success. The A1200 motherboard contains lots of chips, [..] the A1200 hardware is comparably very expensive to build. Apparently, the Walker wouldn't have been cheaper either, as it added lots of functionality without having redesigned [= cheaper] custom chips. Adding small hard drives, CD-ROMs or SIMMS doesn't help either, as you can only buy these as surplus parts [= small quantities]anymore, not from current production.

Gateway in contact with Amiga developers (11-Apr-97 )

    Jason Compton says he didn't have one company tell him directly that they've been contacted by Gateway 2000, but that there are some reliable reports that they are in touch with major Amiga developers present and past.

Reasons for a PC (11-Apr-97 )

    Dietmar Wilt gives a good reason why not to use the Amiga for serious work. Maxon Cinema is apparently faster on his 486 than on his 060 wuth 64 MB of RAM. Time is money, if a 3 minute animation takes 200 hours to render on a PC and 1500 hours on the Amiga, you begin to ask questions. The most important things are the applications, you even get used to a bad user interface.

Kickstart porting (11-Apr-97 )

    Dr. Peter Kittel reports Olsen [Olaf Barthel] said that most of Kickstart, ie. several hundred KB of code, are pure, hand-optimized Assembler; which is hard to port.

Development at ESCOM and PIOS (10-Apr-97 )

    According to Dave Haynie, the first problem at Escom was that AT didn't hit the ground running with new development. They only contacted Andy and him 7 months after acquiring the Amiga assets. One month later, they showed their PowerAmiga plans to them, but Escom waffled on it and ended up having no money for anything. Some time later at PIOS, development was entirely different. We started knowing we wanted to make a new computer. In summer '96 it looked like a super-low-cost AT box, but as the AmigaOS "disappeared" it became more high-end, starting to look like a BeBox, then evolved to use more current and/or integrated parts and finally was modified once again in mid-January for CHRP.
    Nearly every engineering project is late. The reason is simple -- engineering is both science and art, and there's no way to absolutely predict how quickly inspiration will come when it's needed, how many weird little problems will show up, etc. AT never even got to that stage, though, because they never really started the Power Amiga project. They do have some interesting architecture papers on it...

Petro T. interview (10-Apr-97 )

    German magazine Amiga Magazin did a short interview with Petro T. He says that Gateway want to start where [they] stopped about a year ago. The Amiga has to be built and sold again. Apparently, there will be a press release in accordance to this at the end of April. In the near future, Amiga International will continue selling A1200's with and without HD's, prices will neither get lower nor higher. He says they are aware that the Amiga in it's current configuration doesn't satisfy the demands of this time, and that they are planning to have a talk with competent developers as soon as possible. Gateway's offices in Germany and the European main office in Dublin have nothing to do with Amiga International, Amiga users, manufacturers etc. should contact AI directly. Petro T. ends the interview with saying that he sees a very bright future for the Amiga, with Gateway 2000, a strong company [..] which is willing to invest a substantial amount of money in the computer.

Windows... (10-Apr-97 )

    Andreas Schmidt said:
    Windows is for people who start a program in the morning, work with it, terminate it in the evening and go home. Somebody who knows better and doesn't accept everything, because he knows it can be done better, will soon begin searching for alternatives; as long as he wants more than just using some specific program. AmigaOS is a good alternative, as far as I am concerned.

Feedback at AT (10-Apr-97 )

    Dr. Peter Kittel says that at the time Escom took over Commodore, they were not overwhelmed by letters and calls. Apparently they got about 120 mails per day, most of them were congratulations, encouragements, some suggestions and very few annoying mails. All in all, it was not at all embarrassing. [..] So let's hope Gateway makes the same experience currently.

Elvis chief technologist at Gateway (10-Apr-97 )

    Dave Haynie seems to think that Elvis is the technologist at Gateway 2000. [ ;-) ]

On AAA (10-Apr-97 )

    Dave Haynie confirms that they (Commodore) had first silicon of the AAA chips; that the chips did stuff, but that they were FAR from complete. With a right budget at the time, he estimates it would have taken 6 to 12 months to finish it. Restarting it now, would mean about two years of work, but the result would be pretty expensive and not very performant. At the time, we were estimating something on the order of $500,000 to $1,000,000 to finish AAA. He thinks that no Amiga chip is a viable option for the desktop today, but for some special purposes ("WebTV" and PCI AmigaToaster card) they could still be suitable. He adds that if he wanted to do something Amiga-like today, he would talk to Ed Ed Hepler and 3DO. On the other side, you wouldn't have had the Amiga without Jay, no matter how much you spent trying to do cool chips.

YAMR ("Yet another Microsoft Rumour") (09-Apr-97 )

    Scott A. Cabit posts an interesting reason why Gateway2000 could have bought the Amiga. What if Micro$oft originally intended to buy the Amiga, but Gateway got wind of it and picked it up first...like someone finding out that a highway is going to come through a certain area and buying up the houses while their still inexpensive. The intent might be to resell their little purchase with a huge profit. But, Micro$oft, in their annoyance, bought the much less capable Web-TV and now Gateway is left holding the Amiga "bag".

ZIP on the parallel port (09-Apr-97 )

    Martin Ramsch posted an extensive article containing a FAQ-like text about the possibility of connecting a ZIP to the parallel port of the Amiga. This is all "work-in-progress", ie. there is no interface available yet, but if you're interested or think you can contribute, check out his article.

Amiga browsers compared (08-Apr-97 )

    Stefan Richter took all his HTML documents, originally written for Netscape, and tested them in Amiga browsers. His main testing object were tables. He says he liked IBrowse most, since it displays tables nearly correctly. AWeb didn't like tables without excplicit width declaration and crashed once. He didn't like VoyagerNG much, since tables aren't fully implemented, there are no alignements, no cellspacing and padding, it looks crap. As last browser, he took the old version of Voyager, but that one doesn't display tables at all.

A1200 towers (part 2) (08-Apr-97 )

    Dirk Taggesell comments on a recent post about A1200 towers (see below) and says that he doesn't trust the Infinitiv tower either. Apparently, it's all plastic, without any metallic parts and therefore not very solid. He asks himself how it could possibly get a CE seal.

Don't pressurize Gateway (08-Apr-97 )

    Jason Compton says his real fear, concerning people mailing G2000, is that they (1) may not be set up yet to really handle a bunch of Amiga user input, (2) Amiga users will inundate them with letters/calls/etc., (3) Gateway will be overwhelmed and a whole lot of this stuff will never be dealt with and (4) Amiga users won't hear anything back and will feel they're being ignored cruelly and will rant and rave about how much they hate Gateway, when they haven't actually done anything wrong on purpose.

No AR buyout issue yet (08-Apr-97 )

    Jason Compton says there is no AR buyout issue yet, because the Gateway deal isn't 100% completed yet.

The Net vs. Amiga (08-Apr-97 )

    George Noel posted detailed informations about (missing) Amiga coverage in The Net, readers letters and the magazine's replies.

AmigaOS ports (08-Apr-97 )

    Dr. Peter Kittel says Andy Finkel thinks a 1:1 (unchanged) port needs at least a full year if you have 30 programmers. With less people, you need longer. When you do more than a 1:1 port, you need of course even longer. So realistically take 2 or 3 (or even more) years into account to achieve this. I don't think this could be acceptable.

Have some faith (07-Apr-97 )

    An anonymous person who calls himself "Goat" writes that people should have some faith with Gateway. He said he has dealt with them as customer, and that Gateway has a much better customer support than Commodore ever had. He says that Gateway users are something of fanatics, much like Gateway, since it's not very normal to ship computers in boxes marked like cows. He thinks they like fanatism, since it pays off for them. Concerning people mailing Gateway with idiotic suggestions, he writes I don't think that a few oddball letters mixed in with a generally sane and enthusiastic lot are going to faze them in the least. I just hope that they can keep their sense of humor as they survey the wreckage that the last four years has made of the Amiga.

Mad Cow Disease (07-Apr-97 )

    Lutz Viewig thinks that the A1200 no longer suits the market - no matter if it's released in its current form or as Walker. For playing, there's the cheaper Playstation and for working there are inexpensive PC clones. He thinks the only explanation for using the Walker is mad cow disease. [ ;-) ]

Cronus and proDAD software distribution agreement (05-Apr-97 )

    Fred Fish announces a software distribution agreement. Cronus will provide a complete pOS development environment on CD-ROM. The CD will be named Geek Gadgets 2 and will be released in April. It will contain a developers release of pOS, as well as all necessary tools for pOS development. Using these tools, it is possible to write programs that run on both p.OS and AmigaOS using the same binary file. A shared library that runs on both operating systems provides applications with all necessary ANSI C and POSIX support, while special startup code allows programs to determine at startup whether they are running on p.OS or AmigaOS and make the appropriate system calls.

Amiga Quake (05-Apr-97 )

    Apparently, Justin Case has some a bit more knowledge about the Amiga port of Quake that the average user. He says that the source code was obtained from someone named ^MAX^, he belongs to a rather nefarious group of individuals who re-distribute their own versions of otherwise commercially available software. That person re-wrote it in order to work on the Amiga, and he's implemented some features not in the original, and that are exclusive to that particular port. ^MAX^ is continuing to develop this version, and is actually planning to completely re-write it in assembler. There is now also an official statement from iD software on this subject: we are aware of a port that was recently written for the Amiga. We don't condone, nor do we condemn this version. It is not our intention, at this time, to begin supporting the Amiga, nor in the foreseable future.... But they also say that Amiga users must purchase the original Quake.

What we know about Gateway2000 (05-Apr-97 )

    Jason Compton says that the only thing we know about Gateway 2000 is that they have gone on public record saying they will continue the Amiga line.. It's been a part of their official information. He adds that this is enough for him for the moment, and that he thinks it's the most we can expect for the time being.

AAA chipset (05-Apr-97 )

    Recently there have been talks about the AAA chipset again. Yes, it's true that they were already put into silicon, but Dr. Peter Kittel points out that this was 1st silicon, ie. still very buggy, only some few functions of the chips worked already. This means that at least another year would have been needed to complete them.

Amiga's Future at Gateway2000? (05-Apr-97 )

    Ben Bauer forwards a press relase from Gateway 2000 that is not directly related to the Amiga, but that talks about the company's corporate direction and market segmentation strategy. They believe that all customers are not the same and they see three basic customer segments: the enthusiast, the major account customer and the consumer. Possibly they are also talking about the Amiga here; either as enthousiast or as consumer machine.

A1200 Towers (05-Apr-97 )

    Joern Plewka warns all users not to use Zorro-2 cards in their modified A1200's with tower. He points out that only the Micronik tower system seems to be reliable. He says that all other towers he knows have hot design errors, like missing terminators on the ISA bus, etc. [More technical info follows, but I'm not sure how to translate that to English. - Sorry]

The Return of The Walker (04-Apr-97 )

    Siegfried Otto reports that he was on CUCUG's pages and that he saw a statement that said that the Walker may be resurrected, since the plans for it are 99% done.

P5's Maccelerate (04-Apr-97 )

    In reply to another posting, Jason Compton says that he doesn't think that most of P5's business [is] on the Mac end and not the Amiga end, but that from what he has gathered from them, P5's Maccelerate card sales have been poor.

"Mr. Y" (04-Apr-97 )

    Dr. Peter Kittel officially denies that the "Mr. Y" mentioned on the PIOS team page is Mr. Hembach. [ ;-) ]

On Gateway 2000 and PC's (04-Apr-97 )

    We begin this month with yet another Dave Haynie post. Does this guy never sleep? ;-) This time he talks about Gateway 2000. I think Gateway's probably a good one [choice], if the Amiga assets actually had to be bought by a PC company. Gateway had a really good year, they have money in the bank. Then he talks about the advantages of an AmigaOS running on PC hardware, but he also points out that PPC would be a better choice and says that he certainly hope[s] Gateway's interested in that again, we'll see...
 
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