AmigaOS 4 (meant to be released to developers this month) is being designed for PPC computers by Hyperion and a few extra Amiga developers they have hired.
It is aimed to work on new PPC hardware designed by eyetech and bplan, as well as current amigas that have older 603 and 604 PPC processors like the blizzard and cyberstorm accelerator cards, allowing people to use existing equipment, or newer equipment that allows use of off the shelf PC items such as PCI cards etc.
There are other PPC expansions coming out and they may be supported as well.
x86 is not a goal for AOS4, as to change it for that, instead of going the naturla route of 680x0 to PPC, would take a lot longer, and people want product asap (as always).
all this is just a small piece of the market Amiga is aiming for anyway, and has aimed for since they were created. See this recent interview with CEO Bill McEwan for what is currently on the minds of Amiga.
ever since it was really announced, Amiga OS 4, and all its point revisions, was always going to be PPC only. Why are you so upset at something that has been known since early last year ?
oh wait, they are meant to write OS 4 straight to multi-platform and everyone will be fine with waiting an extra 3 years;)
Amiga OS 5 is targeted to be multi-platform so im sure you can wait till thats out.
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AmigaOS 4 (meant to be released to developers this month) is being designed for PPC computers by Hyperion and a few extra Amiga developers they have hired.
It is aimed to work on new PPC hardware designed by eyetech and bplan, as well as current amigas that have older 603 and 604 PPC processors like the blizzard and cyberstorm accelerator cards, allowing people to use existing equipment, or newer equipment that allows use of off the shelf PC items such as PCI cards etc.
There are other PPC expansions coming out and they may be supported as well.
x86 is not a goal for AOS4, as to change it for that, instead of going the naturla route of 680x0 to PPC, would take a lot longer, and people want product asap (as always).
all this is just a small piece of the market Amiga is aiming for anyway, and has aimed for since they were created. See this recent interview with CEO Bill McEwan for what is currently on the minds of Amiga.
ever since it was really announced, Amiga OS 4, and all its point revisions, was always going to be PPC only. Why are you so upset at something that has been known since early last year ? oh wait, they are meant to write OS 4 straight to multi-platform and everyone will be fine with waiting an extra 3 years ;)
Amiga OS 5 is targeted to be multi-platform so im sure you can wait till thats out.