| From: | Philip Meason |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1992 at 11:14:22 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcing silly named things? ;) |
Hi David
> > 2) Who's developing hardware? Amiga certainly aren't. They are
>
> Of course not, what's the point in using non-standard hardware? It
> would end up like another classic amiga situation where everything
> costs a fortune.
That's the point I was making I think. When told that developing and
building hardware takes time ;0)
> > off the shelf parts so where's the developement? If they can offer
> > the DE on the A1200/A4000 eyetech setups then it can be done on a
> > x86
>
> Part of the announcement said as long as you have an AmigaDE friendly
> CPU you can run it. It'll probably run on x86 at the same time as the
> AmigaOne gets released, but you can wait and find out then, no doubt
> someone will try it.
<snip>
> > Given the fact that the SDK ran on x86 from the beginning, the OS
> will probably be avilable for that when AmigaOne is released.
Good point. I shall step down off my soap box and get my coat. 80)
It does appear from the press release that x86 versions will not be
available untill Q3 2001. I hope you are correct because I am getting
very frustraited waiting and waiting.
Peace
Zanthras
Amiga inc.
http://www.amiga.com
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