I think the best bit of the technology brief has to be the following lines:
"Finally, there will be a suite of end-user workspaces, including a new Amiga Workbench being designed at Amiga. There are already a number of interesting desktop environments available for Linux, and it is our intent to contribute the Amiga workbench to the open source movement, and encourage the creative Amiga and Linux communities to modify, enhance, replace, and generally get creative when it comes to next-generation desktop environments (we believe that one of the disadvantages of today's Windows and Macintosh personal computers is the "closed" nature of their desktop environments)."
Add that to the promise of kernel modifications ( which have to be Open Sourced ) and you have one *open* system..
Yep.. You are missing something.. You see, there is more to a computer's power than it's CPU's MHz rating.
For starters, an effecient architecture can ( and will, see sony playstation ) compensate for a slower CPU. Other than that, the CPU's clock speed is a *very* rough indicator of it's actual speed. A 68060 at 50MHz is a lot faster than a 68030 at 50MHz..
Besides, this lowly 68060 at 50MHz ( which is the norm these days, 25MHz chips are rarely used ) has enough processing power to do a number of things at once ( including playing back MP3's for instance ).
And don't forget, a lot of people only 'need' that faster CPU to play better games...
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I think the best bit of the technology brief has to be the following lines:
"Finally, there will be a suite of end-user workspaces, including a new Amiga Workbench being designed at Amiga. There are already a number of interesting desktop environments available for Linux, and it is our intent to contribute the Amiga workbench to the open source movement, and encourage the creative Amiga and Linux communities to modify, enhance, replace, and generally get creative when it comes to next-generation desktop environments (we believe that one of the disadvantages of today's Windows and Macintosh personal computers is the "closed" nature of their desktop environments)."
Add that to the promise of kernel modifications ( which have to be Open Sourced ) and you have one
*open* system..
This *could* really be a revolution...
Yep.. You are missing something.. You see, there is more to a computer's power than it's CPU's MHz rating.
For starters, an effecient architecture can ( and will, see sony playstation ) compensate for a slower CPU. Other than that, the CPU's clock speed is a *very* rough indicator of it's actual speed. A 68060 at 50MHz is a lot faster than a 68030 at 50MHz..
Besides, this lowly 68060 at 50MHz ( which is the norm these days, 25MHz chips are rarely used ) has enough processing power to do a number of things at once ( including playing back MP3's for instance ).
And don't forget, a lot of people only 'need' that faster CPU to play better games...