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Re: Konec valky PPC kernelu (fwd)
On 19-KvÅ-98, Bob Stifter wrote:
>An announcement (mostly concerning the agreement between Haage&Partner and
>Phase 5 concerning the common PPC Kernel) will be out Wednesday Evening. The
>PPC Kernel War is over now. The two ruled out their differences (Well, in
fact
>the agreement is still negociated, but it is already sure, that there will be
>an agreement, and also how basically it will look... i cannot tell more about
>this though... in fact i don't know exactly... but it will be an agreement
>acceptable for everyone, asides maybe for people who are interested in this
>"Kernel War" just to produce themselves in the newsgroups... :) )
>About these Intel Rumours, something more detailed:
>- AI have a "superchip" in the making, that means not themselves, but Gateway
> is currently negociating for the "superchip" (it is done by a small firm,
> few people know about it... the whole story reminds a bit about the
> original AMIGA team...). Specs below.
>- The chip won't be available before 1/99.
>- Developpement has to start earlier, because of this Simulation Software
> has to be used
>- Simulation Software is available for Intel already
>- OS 4.0 is intended as a release ONLY FOR DEVELOPPERS which will use this
> simulation, final OS5.0 (end of '99) won't use Intel !!!
>- Mr. Dietrich, Mr.Haage and also
> the bosses of Index and ACT had a VERY bad time at the show, mainly talking
> to AI guys and convincing them and all that, and explaining them HOW BAD
> marketing they did... the way they told their announcement... Intel + Amiga
> users won't work together.
>Results:
>- H&P and P5 will probably announce a common PPC standard still this week.
> News should be available at the H&P WWW Site Wednesday Evening
>- H&P and P5 will - as it looks - get the job to do a "PowerPC Path to 4.0"
> which mainly means translating this simulation software to PPC
>- More information hopefully soon.
>It has to be said, that the whole affair was VERY bad marketing by AI, but
the
>situation is in the meanwhile solved, mainly thanks to Mr.Haage from H&P and
> Mr.Dietrich from Phase 5. Also appearently Mr.Tytschenko, Mr.Albrecht from
>ACT and the boss of Index (forgot the name) played an important role.
>Watch the WWW Sites of H&P and P5 closely on Wednesday Evening... and the
>following days/weeks...
>Some specs of the "superchip":
>- 5x Faster than PII
>- Can do 400 Million Pixels / Second in 3D
>- Software-Adaptable to future Multimedia-Standards (MPEG 4...)
>- Can replay two MPEG 2 Video Streams at the same time, texturemapped onto
> 3D Objects, at the same time
>Steffen
No... ceska konference anglicky.
Omlouvam se nechal sem to celi jen proto aby to bylo dobre vydet,
pac tam neni jedine ceske slovo krome jmen.
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