ffakr said:
I think he's posting otherwhere as optimaloptimussupreme
I found a post by optimaloptimussupreme at Linux Format on the same topic and it's just as inane and silly as these posts.
Just a few things..
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-First, most people would say that you would run the Amiga OS on the Itanium Architecture, not that you RUN a processor or an ISA Architecture on an OS.
-I've looked up Parisc and it appears to be a Linux distro. Linux with the Amiga window manager (which I thought sucked when I played with it)
-Here's a great post by the guy who I think may be this guy's alter-ego.
http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2222&st=0&#entry18441
He is rambling all kinds of insanity.. like how the Amiga is asymmetric and doesn't use a hardware clock (he doesn't seem to get how assymetric hardware is supposed to work).. and he thinks NASA uses Amigas. hehe
-And this one is the best. Hombre ISN'T and ITANIUM port of AmigaOS dumbass. Don't believe me? How about hearing it from a PhD who worked on the Hombre project at Commodore?
http://www.templeoftech.com/viewarticlepage.cka?articleid=26&pageid=2
Dr. Hepler: Hombre had an integer PA-RISC core on board to act as the system processor in the low-end mode or as a peripheral processor in the high-end mode.
Get that? It ran a PA RISC core as the system processor normally but would use that cpu as a specialty processor in special modes. The other cpu was not ITANIUM either. It was something custom built off 68K.
Dumbass.
Oh, and btw.. according to the guy who helped design Hombre, it was supposed to come out in 1995 when Itanium was still being designed ON PAPER.
Amiga people are funny. They just can't accept that their architecture is DEAD.
They are the flat-earthers of computing.
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hum here is a quote form the history of amiga heck type it in Hombre:
The choice of the Hombre is a confusing one to an audience so used to the idea of the Amiga moving towards PowerPC. Rather than a clean break with a new CPU, Commodore chose to produce Hombre as a chipset with a PA-RISC core.
not used at nasa again he is wrong:
Gary Jones, the principle systems engineer for NASA's software systems at Cape Canaveral told us the Amigas take in all the telemetry data from the spacecraft, scale it by applying coefficients up to fifth order polynomials and convert the data back to engineering units for display to the engineers working the launch.
Gary went on to tell us that their first choice was the Macintosh, but as it was a closed system, Apple wouldn't give NASA enough information to get into it at the level that was needed. Talk about blowing a marketing opportunity!
He continued "We then looked at the PC, but the hardware architecture was really as bad then as it is now. So Hal was the first one who brought out one of the Amiga 1000's and we played with it."
"It just turned out that it was a good machine. The things that make a machine good for playing games tend to make it good for processing and displaying data. Because you've got some of the same problems. You need an operating system that very efficient, very fast and the Amiga has that and has got very little overhead. That's what makes it nice; we don't load down the system running the overhead we can just process the data."
"Most of our customizing is hardware customizing. The Amiga operating system is flexible enough we have to drop into assembly only once in a while to initialize some of the special boards we use, but otherwise the operating system is fine we don't do anything unusual with it. We use it just like it is and build hardware for our interfacing requirements because we have to pull the data out of the data bus in this building and put the data back in."
Seven Amigas are online assigned to operational support, six are dedicated to routing data to remote space centers and another six are reserved for hardware and software development.
The spacecraft supported by the Amigas include; all of the Atlas-Centaurs, Delta II and Delta III, the Orbital Sciences Pegasus, Lockheed-Martin Athena, a couple different models of the Titan, GOES and GPS spacecraft data and some user data off the space shuttle.
Because of way the Amiga is laid out and because the software is all tied together, if the bit rate isn't too high, they can actually support more than one spacecraft at a time in the same Amiga. A multi-tasking, multi-spacecraft personal computer!
Gary Jones; "If its not a PC, NASA gives us a lot of grief when we try to buy anything to go with the Amigas. They want us to buy Macs or PC's and run Windows 98 and NT(XP,2003), not to mention linux or bsd. We keep trying to tell them those platfofrms arent fast enough or stable enough so they tell us to buy DEC Alphas. We tell them its too expensive and not as powerful. They don't like the Amiga, it doesn't cost enough." They are starting to see the light now that they see Intel making clones of the Amiga.
there much more but accoridng to him they arent there. I call them every now and then like last week to upodate the info. I was physicaly there due to my work with the navy as they are training nasa astronauts. On flip, vnav and other courses. Oh yeha hell say thats not true becaue he doesnt udnerstand it orsome other immature thing.
Look up Intel again with there history youll fnd that intel bought out amiga chipsets to make the itanium which is identical to the Hombre, Pciexpress, and all ie useing ahi -sound not crappy creative and rgb not inferior vga.
Also youll find that redhat and suse used amgia os as the base of the new os for itanium. Thereby going true Unix. Going back to unix and amiga as it was intened and invented on . yes linux inveted on a amiga 3000. By the way look that in Linux mag called Linux user about 4 -6 months ago.
He claims to know archtecture x86 was invented as erly as 1947. Asymetirc archtieture 1982 hum whos behind now. Secondly, Amiga now Hombre is compared to humas as its the same archtiecture as the human cell. I do know he doesnt as he didnt know what i was comparing it to.
funny how fools resort to such immature tactics. The facts are as they are . It happend . His in the linux room and yet he claims mac os isnt linux then what is he doing there. Frankly he doesnt know jack hence the name calling as last resort. All you have to is look on the net ask Nasa and hollywood all of which use the Amiga or Hombre as it is called now hence my name.
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HERE ENDTH THE LESSON
meaning not going to reply to a fool that doesnt knwo jack
to the othere guy if you dont rember the past you are condemed to repeat it
bellbottoms and all%^)
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