Sorry, I wasn`t bashing the Atari community. I used to own an ST and am currently running Cyrix 333 with Viper 770 (TNT2) with Win98 and SuSE Linux 6.1 networked to my 060 & 604e PPC Amiga running AmigaOS and unofficial Redhat 5.2. It is definitely the Free Software community that is keeping the Amiga (and Atari) alive. The Amiga`s strong Unix background also helps
It`s the so called "whining childish hatemonger" that has kept the Amiga platform alive for the past 7 years. Every week since Commodore`s demise, somebody declares the Amiga dead. Commodore is gone, Escom is Gone Atari is gone Sega Saturn & Sony playstation have been and are going (not to mention the SNES, & Megadrive (Genesis)) Acorn is gone Sega is on it`s last legs and the AMIGA is STILL here. Pretty amazing really.
I have an A4000 with dual 68060 & 604e PPC running AmigaOS and Linux APUS (Unoffiical RedHat 5.2) with Permedia2 graphics card - far from dead. (nearly 900 kkeys in RC5)
um, yes you do. You have to be a British national or a Commonwealth national Where a 'British national' is someone from Great Britain (England, Scotland & Wales) or N. Ireland
Isnt Transmeta supposed to be the MMC (multimedia processor) supplier for Gateway/Amiga inc next. gen Amiga along with QNX who are supplying their neutrino OS core (posix/unix)??????
Firstly, Amiga/Gateway have not announced what harware the new Amiga will be based on - only that the new OS will be by QNX who provide their Os for use in the NASA space shuttle among other majar companies. It is used because it is a small, compact, romable stable OS core based on posix/unix. It is available for download at their website for numerous platforms. It is quite small unlike MS windoze
Secondly Amiga/Gateway have said that they do not intend to manufacture any hardware and simply intend to licence the various Amiga technologies - as they do with the current "Amiga Classic"
Thirdly, Gateway has it's "Digital Convergance" strategy whereby it aims to integrate Amiga Technologies transparently into consumer goods as tv/computers/video/cable/satellite/DVD/internet/te lecoms ect ect all merge - perhaps eventually into one box.
Amiga inc should have their development box out any day now which uses intel PC and probably PC version of QNX neutrino OS
By the way this has been written on an A1200 tower dual 25mhz 040, 240mhz PPC,BlizzardVision Permedia2 graphics card, 128Mb Ram, prelude sound card, 32*CD-ROM, 8GB HD, 17" monitor I also have a P200 so I can bring home my work, but thats the only time I ever use it - I can not believe how bloated windoze'98 is. I have used Acorn Archimedes, Amigas , Atari's, Apples, Linux, NetBSD and windows is simply overbloated crap.
I can only hope that the new Amiga and OS will be licenced freely and openly. Since the new(and old) OS are closely releated to unix, hopefully they will be free source
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Sorry, I wasn`t bashing the Atari community. I used to own an ST and am currently running Cyrix 333 with Viper 770 (TNT2) with Win98 and SuSE Linux 6.1 networked to my 060 & 604e PPC Amiga running AmigaOS and unofficial Redhat 5.2. It is definitely the Free Software community that is keeping the Amiga (and Atari) alive. The Amiga`s strong Unix background also helps
It`s the so called "whining childish hatemonger" that has kept the Amiga platform alive for the past 7 years. Every week since Commodore`s demise, somebody declares the Amiga dead.
Commodore is gone, Escom is Gone
Atari is gone
Sega Saturn & Sony playstation have been and are going (not to mention the SNES, & Megadrive (Genesis))
Acorn is gone
Sega is on it`s last legs
and the AMIGA is STILL here. Pretty amazing really.
I have an A4000 with dual 68060 & 604e PPC running AmigaOS and Linux APUS (Unoffiical RedHat 5.2) with Permedia2 graphics card - far from dead.
(nearly 900 kkeys in RC5)
um, yes you do.
You have to be a British national or a Commonwealth national
Where a 'British national' is someone from Great Britain (England,
Scotland & Wales) or N. Ireland
Isnt Transmeta supposed to be the MMC (multimedia processor) supplier
for Gateway/Amiga inc next. gen Amiga along with QNX who are supplying
their neutrino OS core (posix/unix)??????
Firstly, Amiga/Gateway have not announced what harware the new Amiga
e lecoms ect ect
will be based on - only that the new OS will be by QNX who provide
their Os for use in the NASA space shuttle among other majar
companies. It is used because it is a small, compact, romable stable
OS core based on posix/unix. It is available for download at their
website for numerous platforms. It is quite small unlike MS windoze
Secondly Amiga/Gateway have said that they do not intend to
manufacture any hardware and simply intend to licence the various
Amiga technologies - as they do with the current "Amiga Classic"
Thirdly, Gateway has it's "Digital Convergance" strategy whereby it
aims to integrate Amiga Technologies transparently into consumer goods
as tv/computers/video/cable/satellite/DVD/internet/t
all merge - perhaps eventually into one box.
Amiga inc should have their development box out any day now which uses
intel PC and probably PC version of QNX neutrino OS
By the way this has been written on an A1200 tower dual 25mhz 040,
240mhz PPC,BlizzardVision Permedia2 graphics card, 128Mb Ram, prelude
sound card, 32*CD-ROM, 8GB HD, 17" monitor
I also have a P200 so I can bring home my work, but thats the only
time I ever use it - I can not believe how bloated windoze'98 is. I
have used Acorn Archimedes, Amigas , Atari's, Apples, Linux, NetBSD
and windows is simply overbloated crap.
I can only hope that the new Amiga and OS will be licenced freely and
openly. Since the new(and old) OS are closely releated to unix,
hopefully they will be free source