@bbrv

So when finally you will stop spamming with your blog? I am sure the really interested to read it persons, know how to find it already!

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bbrv's blog: Raquel and Bill said... Hi Hollis, this is about digital distribution. When hardware changes the rules change. Content is driving that change in the same way we went from black & white to color TV, but in a fraction of the time (how about that iPod?!). Apple is trying to do that now with Intel. The end user device is the key. We thought this was about the 32 to 64-bit transition (thinking back to the market-player changes from 8 to 16-bit). We don't think that is it any more. We think the hardware changes that will redefine the industry are related to establishing Device ID - necessary for security, DRM and actually privacy too (another discussion) - in other words the need to make a computer like a cell phone with built in authentication, authorization and accounting (billing) features. If you believe this, then the ISA could be a means to many ends. If we read up on the CELL Patent (# 6,809,734), CELL technology is just NOT about the CPU. The CELL technology is a combination of CPU design, network management and how the software is organized and transmitted in a "CELL" (as in a package) of applications and data. CELL is actually an inclusive strategy that combines everything 32-bit with everything 64-bit and turns everything out there already (e.g. embedded) into a sum much greater that the parts. Today and increasingly in the future, broadband networks allow both data and application to travel between users. If all members of a computer network, that is, all computers and computing devices on the network, are constructed from a common computing module then we have a totally pervasive solution - everyone can get everything, everywhere. The CELL objective is that this common computing module has a consistent structure and will employ the same ISA. This means that the members of the Power.org network, e.g., clients, servers, PCs, mobile computers, game machines, PDAs, set top boxes, appliances, digital televisions and other devices, will use the same core computer processor logic insuring compatibility. The consistent modular structure enables efficient, high speed processing of applications and data by the network's members and the rapid transmission of applications and data over the network. THAT COULD MEAN THAT THE RULES JUST CHANGED - DRAMATICALLY. IBM has certainly invested in that prospect and having the three main game consoles using Power or CELL is part of that strategy. We think the new Freescale owners are thinking this way too. All this suggests a new programming model for transmitting data and applications over a network and for processing data and applications among the network's members (vs. data just being transferred between stand alone devices that must run the same application software to process and display the data sent). This programming model employs a software CELL that is transmitted over the network for processing by any of the network's members (some to a higher degree and some to a lesser degree). Each software CELL has the same structure and contains both applications and data. It means the "old" stuff still works, but it needs to be compiled in a NEW way. What we have (IBM has; FSL might) thus created is a dynamic not unlike the advent of the fax machine -- to send or receive a fax you had to have one (and if you don't have one you can not play!). This means the code for the applications *must* be based upon the same common ISA. However, all computing resources on this network will have to have the same basic structure and employ the same ISA so any particular resource performing the processing can be located anywhere on the network and dynamically assigned to the activity required. We talked about this a couple of years ago. We still think the Power Architecture technology has the trump card *if* the game gets that far. As far as we are concerned, having an old IBM CEO back in the game is a good thing. Again, this is about digital distribution. When this media replaces its predecessors the money flows in the new direction. R&B 3:42 PM

Hi bbrv,

Yikes!

Talk, talk, talk, blah, blah, blah....

Just buy Hyperion Entertainment and Amia Inc. already, own AOS4.x, and 5.0 outright, and drive them into the ground like you did MorphOS.

At $4.50 US a pop, it'd be the same thing.

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bbrv wrote: @pixie et al What does "Amiga" have to offer? There is a community. Perserve this! Best regards, R&B

You misspelt "perverse".

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We think Lou Gerstner will now answer that question. He is the Chairman of the Carlyle Group and the former CEO of IBM. Carlyle now owns Freescale.

Hmm, thought I recalled that name from somewhere ....

Meet The Carlyle Group

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Former World Leaders and Washington Insiders Making Billions in the War on Terrorism - Carlyle has become the thread which indirectly links American military policy in Afghanistan to the personal financial fortunes of its celebrity employees, not least the current president's father. And, until earlier this month, Carlyle provided another curious link to the Afghan crisis: among the firm's multi-million-dollar investors were members of the family of Osama bin Laden

Not the sort of people I want making decisions for me, or taking one penny from me.

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Just dropped back in to make that point. There will be opportunity. We hope there will be a new Amiga and better than it ever was. What will that make the past and the unsuccessful when that happens? What does "Amiga" have to offer? There is a community. Preserve this!

What do you refer to with the word "Amiga"? Why do you enclose it in quotes? Why are you always so subtle? What makes you think that the community is not going to survive without following you?

saimo

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