Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 5th May 2007 23:03 UTC
ACK has pretty much confirmed that their high-end Amiga system will use PA Semi chips. In an IRC session, Adam of ACK replied to the question how ACK was going to build a system faster than anything Apple ever produced on the PPC side: "Think PA Semi quad-core chips." Adam also said ACK started talks with PA Semi about a year ago, while also promising specifications of the high-end system to be released coming Monday.
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2005-12-13
Second, Amiga would have to reverse engineer the Macs to run their OS. Seems simpler to have your own hardware.
Wherein lies the difference in supporting a newly put together, non existing platform as opposed to say Power Mac G5's? Working forwards or backwards hardly make a difference to the Amiga lovers that have been hearing news like this on and off for years, now...
Actually I'd think it'd be better to actually get someplace instead of just dreaming of it!
Plus: Since it's been possible for OpenBSD and NetBSD - not to mention Linux - to support the 'odd' Mac hardware, it should also be possible for the makers of the Amiga OS - if they want to...