| From: | Gary Peake |
| Date: | 22 Oct 2000 at 19:01:55 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Pfui ! :-/ |
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 07:35:15 -1000, owner-open@amiga.com "Luca Diana"
<gdiana@hpu.edu> wrote:
>It's necessary to clear the situation here: Amiga Inc, makes SW (that's the
>reason why everybody is on this list, right?) and HW reference design. They
>made the reference for the AmigaOne running on several processors: x86, PPC,
>MIPS, Arm, etc. and Eyetech is free (since it's them who make the HW) to use
>the processor they prefer or they believe most successful for the actual
>market conditions. I don't think it's an Amiga decision whatsoever, and in
>the future it is likely that other processors will be seen because the SW
>will run there anyway.
>So, don't take this announcement as Amiga's moving backward, but as Amiga
>giving space and decision power to manufactufrers. I find this quite
>comforting and diametrically opposite to Microsoft's habits.
Hopefully this will clear the air a bit here and get us back to development
talk ...
We are doing several things at once, unusual for an Amiga Mother Company, I
know.
1. We are offering an upgrade to Classic Amiga owners through
Haage-Partner. (new AmigaOS upgrade)
2. We are working to transition the Classic market and developers through
Eyetech and possibly others as well. (PPC Amigas)
3. We are building a totally new AmigaDE based on the current SDK and any
future updates and upgrades to the SDK.
Please don't lose the focus guys. Nothing unusual is going on here except
we are actually doing something instead of talking about it. I know that is
enough to cause alarm since we follow several who have just talked about
it, but hang with us and watch where we go.
The roller coaster is barely over the first dip and some of you guys are
already getting nervous. Hell, the ride is just getting started. Buckle up,
hang on, and enjoy! :)
Doing it because we can, not because we have to!
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