| From: | Warren Katchmar |
| Date: | 22 Oct 2000 at 23:15:24 |
| Subject: | AOS35: OS 3.9 plus |
Since there has been a fair amount of talk of Amiga news, I am posting this
here as well. It comes from:
http://www.realdreams.cz/amiga/index.html
Greg Thomas: "ACE 2000 was a huge success for Amiga and its users. Many
people from many platforms attended and heard FOUR big announcements from
Amiga CEO, Bill McEwen. The first and the biggest is the new PPC based
Amiga One, the new computer from Amiga. It was emphasised that Amiga is a
software company, so in future all hardware will be from third parties,
not Amiga itself. There will soon be a card to upgrade your existing A1200
and A4000 (A3000 maybe) to Amiga One specifications with access to Apple
Mac accelerators! Second, Workbench 3.9 with a new Kickstart 3.9 chip is
to be released. The next update of the SDK is tomorrow and the next
version in one months time. And last of all was the announcement that
Amiga is opening 10% of the company up to investment from Amiga users.
This was a huge announcement in itself and added to the jubilation of the
crowd. During his speech Bill said he is not the saviour of the Amiga, we
are. This was a great day for our Amiga. Many of the Linux users were very
excited about this "closed source" news too :-) The speech was so well
received that Amiga user, Rick Hammond said to Bill, "Thank you, this has
changed my life. I'm back with Amiga again."
It seems like things are going to get more interesting:-)