| From: | Gary Peake |
| Date: | 25 Oct 2000 at 17:39:46 |
| Subject: | Re: Getting involved (Was Amiga announcing silly named things? ;)) |
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:31:56 +0000, Andy Hall <No_good@jgen.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I was hoping for a reply from Gary on the points I raised in my last posting
>on the subject. But he is a busy guy and it was kind of a big posting, so
>I'll understand if he doesn't.
>At the end of the day I just had questions that I needed to be answered.
Sorry, Bob Cosby, a long time friend of mine, close friend of Jay Miner,
and also a fellow employee here passed away over the weekend and things are
a bit hectic right now.
>As for the mailing list it makes for very interesting reading. There are
>some people working very hard on new apps, and trying very hard to explore
>every nook and cranny of the DE in a very short space of time. There were
>a couple of "interesting companies" on there, but not really mainstream
>stuff. This still hasn't convinced me that there is Major software support
>form outside the community. (but I can see that there are people within the
>community working bloody hard).
If you watch the sigs there are some of the current AmigaOS programmers
there, a few from IBM, some from Sun, etc, do not read this wrong. They are
their of their own free will and using their own free time doing what they
are doing. But word travels ... :) There are also the silent ones who
watch, develop, and report back but can't post because of prior
commitments.
>The other thing I was hoping he'd reply to was about the (small) project I'd
>been working on. I was hoping that Gary could of given me more information
>about submitting Ideas to Amiga Inc. or to a DE developer (I'm not a great
>programmer).
Any problems you have with programming for the SDK are open on that list
and you will get all the help you need from some very qualified people. You
can also submit ideas to friend@amiga.com or to developer@amiga.com
depending on the technical nature of the email.
>Finnally, how about scientific applications? This is the area I'm most
>interested in, and I was wondering how well the new DE supports these kinds
>of applications, data gathering and analysis, physical modelling etc. Also
>Are there any Scientific apps being ported or produced for the DE?
Any style/type of programming will run on the SDK if coded properly? The DE
is about digital content, moving it, saving it, running it, sending it,
developing it. It is all 1's and 0's to Fleecy and he is trying his best to
make sure that all 1's and 0's work without problems. :)
>Another thing (Science related) is are Amiga Inc. aware of the Grid? I just
>read a facinating artical today about the system, which CERN are designing
>to distribute about one petrabyte of information to thousands of
>scientists. As the web was desinged in a similar way (at the CERN by the
>way), and they are touating this as the next generation Web Amiga may be
>interested in it.
Link please?
Sincerely,
Gary Peake
Director - Developer Relations and Support
Amiga Inc.
http://www.amigadev.net
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