From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel) Subject: Re: Yet another friend of mine has left Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Reply-To: peterk@combo.ganesha.com References: <5rl7ep$i6u@nntp02.primenet.com <5rld3k$e2n@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> <5spprs$fno@nntp02.primenet.com> <33F5622B.FC7E248F@deltanet.com> <5t4vkv$p4d@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <33F6036B.674ACCFF@deltanet.com> <841.7168T707T1777@landlines.demon.co.uk> Lines: 33 Message-ID: Date: 18 Aug 97 16:11:20 MEZ Organization: Private Path: 195.95.96.10!news.unisource.be!planetinternet.be!newsgate.unisource.nl!newsgate.cistron.nl!het.net!Cabal.CESspool!bofh.vszbr.cz!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!ganesha!combo.ganesha.com!peterk Xref: 195.95.96.10 comp.sys.amiga.misc:150947 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:180313 In article <841.7168T707T1777@landlines.demon.co.uk> Finn Higgins writes: > >May I just point out that you are doing exactly what you are speaking out >against. Several things: Caution, it seems you are not very correct in your points: >1) The Amiga OS is pretty much all assembler, and not easy to port "All assembler" is an exaggeration. The last report by Olaf Barthel said 80 % of Kickstart were assembler, yet there is much more than Kickstart to the full AmigaOS. >2) GW2K may not want to sink the amount of cash in that Apple did No, but a few (one-digit) million dollars can already do, and GW2K should have that sum. >3) The people who wrote the Amiga OS are all off elsewhere now No, not all. There are several who would like to help, as a full-timer or as a consultant, there are so many ways possible. >So there is no need to be insulting. Put it this way, as a programmer I >would see the task of moving over to PPC (even as just a direct port) as a >tricky one. Sure, difficult, but solvable, and GW2K definitely has the means (money). -- Best Regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // http://www.pios.de of PIOS Private Site in Frankfurt, Germany \X/ office: peterk@pios.de This "combo" account will soon go away, please use the office one!