IBM with new PowerPC for desktops

[star1]

This is very good news for the amiga fans.

Direct links to news stories added by moderator:
The Inquirer.net (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4862)
Microprocessor Forum (http://www.mdronline.com/mpf/conf.html#day1_2)
News.com (http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949030.html?tag=fd_top)

Source: OSNews.com (http://www.osnews.com)

[Rob]

I notice it has a vector processor, does rhis mean altivec or a
compatible unit.

[Hammer]

Just hope it’s completive with AMD's x86-64 at per cost basis.

IBM needs to attract more motherboard manufactures…

All it needs is an PPC OS that has MS style deployment.

[Seehund]

Whoa!!! Hold your horses!

The chip isn't even presented yet, and it's featured as a news item on amiga.org as "good news for the amiga fans"?!

Technical details will be presented on October 15, and who knows what this thing will cost!

When it's first released, it'll be used in servers and stuff, probably from IBM themselves to begin with, then maybe Apple will start using them.

Because of that ******* compulsory licensing idiocy (http://www.petitiononline.com/amigaos/), Macs wouldn't do us any good anyway, Apple won't become an Amiga Inc. licensee before the thermal death of the sun!

We would have to wait until someone else started making affordable boards/systems with these chips, and then we could start hoping that someone would come along and get a license and want to bundle AmigaOS with this, and then, finally, the work to start making AmigaOS run on it could commence.

In other words, it's ridiculous to start dreaming about AmigaOS running on this for years to come, if at all.

Get used to it, as long as the announced AmigaOS distribution policies aren't torn up by the roots, then all hardware we'll ever see will only be sold via Eyetech, and maybe, hypothetically, some time in the future some other small time player in the current Amiga "market". :(

[redrumloa]

Whoa!!! Hold your horses!

You need a vacation Seehund!! Find a nice sunny beach and watch the beach bunnies for a while;-)

[whabang]

Apple won't become an Amiga Inc. licensee before the thermal death of the sun!
Time to prove that we're a cult - Let's blow up the sun! :-D

[zudobug]

The chip isn't even presented yet, and it's featured as a news item on amiga.org as "good news for the amiga fans"?!

Erm, show me some "good news for the amiga fans" that has been presented!

Hehehe. I'm only joking. Just anxious to actually see some of this good stuff that people are working so hard on.

Not long to wait now... :-)

Take care,

-zudo

[DethKnight]

from what i've ben reading the answer to the question

does this mean altivec or a compatible unit?

seems to be "yes"


additionally @seehund
this is good news to this Amiga fan, regardless whether it even remotely touches the "Amiga sector" at all.