Ohe awesome CeBIT show staged this March in Hanover. Germany, was used as a forum for a string of major new Amiga developments: PIOS ONE. PowerPC cards. POS. A Box and more were all being trumpeted as the next logical step for the global Amiga community. However, at the moment everyone is talking about cross compatible operating systems as the future of computing “ Dave Haynie was given a blank sheet to design a new Power PC based computer ” Providing an A1200 and PIOS ONE are linked via a Siamese system, the Amiga display will be retargetted to the PIOS ONE display. Quite how this works will depend on the operating system running on the ONE but for BeOS it's likely that one so-called workgroup' will be the Amiga display. As usual the keyboard, mouse and such forth will be redirected to the Amiga so that only one keyboard, mouse and monitor is needed for the PIOS ONE Amiga hybrid. To see how well the Siamese is capable of integrating the Amiga with another platform, look out for a review on the PC version of the Siamese II RTG system in the next issue of CU Amiga Magazine. BeOS system Another new operating system being touted at the show was BeOS, from the California-based Be Inc. BeOS originally ran on the BeBox computer, a 133Mhz PowerPC 603 machine which was dropped as Be Inc moved to a software only company. BeOS has been responsible for poaching a number of Amiga programmers already; hardly surprising considering that it has been heavily influenced by AmigaOS. The OS itself sells pre-emptive multithreaded multitasking as a feature, a subject close to Amiga user's hearts.
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