Hi,
I've snipped some bits for brevity.
Wayne SS wrote the following about Re: [netconnect] Re: AmigaNG:
> If the PC community
> desides it doesn't want to continue with Windows, it's already got Linux as an
> alternative. It doesn't need another.
Different thing though. Linux requires a deeper knowledge of the
system and filesystem than AmigaOS and Windows. AmigaOS would provide
a more powerful, but more user friendly kernal.
> As for the processor - Surely no-one can suggest that the new Amiga should use
> a CISC chip, particulary a Pentium? No matter how much dosh Intel chucks at it,
> surely the development potential of the Pentium must be reaching the end of its
> useful life, whereas the potential of RISC, is still in its infancy.
The 550MHz PentiumIII is out now, and Intel announced that they will
have an 800 or 850 on the shelves by the end of 1999. CISC isn't a
problem for the PentiumII or III. IIRC, the internals of the chip are
actually a multi-path RISC, with the CISC acting as a hardware
high-level interpreter. There are huge advantages of CISC in memory
handling and code size, and at the speeds we're talking about these
can't be ignored. A 512K instruction cache would have half the impact
on a RISC chip that it would on a CISC for properly optimised code.
The biggest impact here is on unoptimised code, where the Pentium
flies more-or-less regardless, but the PPC gets very sluggish. Look
at the PPC port of Lha, which was /slower/ than the 060/50. The PPC
does have huge advantages as a power application chip, but we're
talking about a small market, relatively, and a huge hardware base of
existing PCs.
> Rip up the PC blueprints and start with a clean sheet of paper, without all the
> technologally limiting compromises. It's the only way for the platform to
> make the quantum leap forward from the PC clones, that will be needed for it
> to survive. We deserve no less.
Realistically though, we can't afford to be choosy about where our
power comes from. Either we pay for it, in which case we'll be
looking at A4000T prices for 233MHz performance (�1500, �2000?), or we
could be paying �900 for 400MHz performance, with easier
expandability.
I /like/ the PPC, and I would _LOVE_ to see a new Amiga with all new
AAA architecture based around DEC or PPC technology.
I'd also like to be able to afford it.
Totty <8^)
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Totty has an Amiga A1200, with 68060/50 and 603e/200 PPC.
32Mb RAM. 8x ATAPI CD. 1.7Gb HD. ShapeShifter V3.10 + OS 7.5.5
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