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From:Steve Hodson
Date:22 Oct 2000 at 01:01:38
Subject:Re: Amiga announcing silly named things? ;)

Andy Hall wrote:

> Hello Steve
>
> > I`m glad they dared to do something different.
>
> What build crap hardware bolted onto an 8 year old motherboard?

Yes...but that`s not the *ONLY* way...that`s just *ONE OPTION*

>
>
> > As for the 3Q2001...developing and building hardware takes time.
>
> Not if you use existing hardware, ie. x86 or POP. Or even better get a major
> harware company to produce it for you.

That option is there already....you can buy a x86 machine with the recommended
spec at it`ll work...that`s the point of it I guess. You can buy *any* PC now
and run the DE hosted on linux....the final OS will run on a limited hardware
subset natively.

I really don`t see your point as the x86 solution is already a given.

Steve

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