Towards the end of the Amiga's life there were a few PowerPC accelerator cards on the market but it as we are here it wasn't enough to save it.

@vcfederation

8 ай бұрын

Very interesting.

@Kobold666

5 ай бұрын

The Amiga PowerPC accelerators were already 2-3 years behind Apple, Phase5 only got those CPUs (603e and 604e with 160-240MHz) because Apple phased them out for the 7400 series (known as G4, starting at 350MHz). Amiga as a company was never part of the development. When Phase5 pitched their PPC plans to Amiga they were rejected. Today there is the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 PowerPC boards from A-EON running AmigaOS 4.0, but that platform is as dead as the PowerPC architecture it was built on, and prohibitively expensive.

Now I'm thinking NCommander needs to get that IBM guy on the record in one of his videos. Just to fully document what was being discussed that we couldn't quite hear. Unfortunately he was a little quiet in the video (even if it did look like he was shouting).

Im from the Mac powerpc era! At the time these machines look pretty good. It is pretty sad the platform has been abandoned on a desktop level. I would like to have a tallos but prices at this time are way beyond what I spect to be a desktop computer

@vcfederation

Ай бұрын

We're glad that you enjoyed the video!

@LMB222

3 күн бұрын

In hindsight everything looks simple and logical… but in order to rescue Apple Inc, the asshat ported the architecture to x86 - and I can't blame him, I'd do the same 25 years ago. Now I can't wait for the x86 to die… already have one ARM server, but that's too few.

Hey it's @NCommander (as he mentioned) His streams are really fun to hang out on :)

@vcfederation

8 ай бұрын

Very cool. I will need to check that out!

One and a half minutes of compulsory KZread ads.

@vcfederation

8 ай бұрын

Yes! Thank you for supporting our organization. It helps us pay for events like this as well as our physical museum.

Can't form a working acronym out of another acronym

@vcfederation

2 ай бұрын

LOL!

At 4:00 in, discussing dropping WinNT from PPC, what I had heard was that this happened because MS told MOT that the only way MS would develop NT for PPC was if MOT payed the ENTIRE development cost (something like $70 million). In other words, MS did not want to take on any of the risk of NT on PPC. MOT said no, and so WinNT on PPC never happened.

@jimgolab536

6 ай бұрын

Hmm, maybe it was MS Office that MS wanted MOT to pay for. Without Office WinNT on PPC was useless. Memory fades.

@vcfederation

6 ай бұрын

I'm not sure. I would contact the presenter for this talk. He should have an idea.

10 minutes in and no mention of PowerPC Amiga wtf... maybe actual unseen world of PowerPC ;)

@Chriva

8 ай бұрын

Because Amiga people are like vegans :D

@KarlHamilton

8 ай бұрын

​@@ChrivaAmiga people are the greatest

@vcfederation

8 ай бұрын

I wonder why.

@vcfederation

8 ай бұрын

How so?

@vcfederation

8 ай бұрын

They really are the greatest!

This kid has never heard of the Amiga :/

@vcfederation

8 ай бұрын

Well that's why we are here: to educate the next generation on the history.