If you're going to compare prices, why not compare the price of an Amiga board ($600-$800) with your typical ATX mobo and AMD/Intel CPU, which runs more like $200-$300, or even less if you don't mind something "old" like a 1GHz Celeron or Duron.
Nah, you can't just compare a bare PPC mobo like the AmigaOne/Pegasos to an x86 offering. Economies of scale. There are millions of x86 boards in production and out there, whereas this PPC solution is new. It'll get cheaper as the manufacturing is ramped up, but small quantities will always cost more.
I for one am willing to pay the extra for PPC hardware that's not locked down to apple and their firmware.
The OS always made using the system a dream, fast and responsive and given that ExecSG (the new kernel) is faster than QNXs' the new Amiga stuff will retain that snappy feel.
The thing isn't even backwards compatible which would be the only reason I'd buy one
There is a built in 68k emulator in 4.0, so you can run any app that didn't bang the hardware and was OS friendly. Apparently on a 603 it's getting 060 speeds, so the 800Mhz G4 should breath some new life into the old apps while we are waiting for new ones.
Plus you can always use UAE to emulate the chipset stuff.
Being an Amiga fan for a looong time now, I also relish the thought of running one of the PPC distros on the my newly ordered AmigaOne XE, which I will be switching to for work. Same goes for *BSD.
For me it's not just about the AmigaOS and it's future, it's about an alternative to the current crap out there, and a chance to get the hell away from WinTel.
The new version of AmigaOS is basically moving the old version across to PPC with a few enhancements. One of the main things is Virtual Memory and basic Memory Protection.
Exec has also been recoded (execSG) and is still as fast as ever. Apparently it's faster than QNX:-)
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Phase5 went belly up, and those involved now work for bPlan who are producing the main competitor to the AmigaOne, which is the Pegasos.
Both boards are very similar in spec, i.e. PPC, USB, PCI, AGP etc. etc.
If you're going to compare prices, why not compare the price of an Amiga board ($600-$800) with your typical ATX mobo and AMD/Intel CPU, which runs more like $200-$300, or even less if you don't mind something "old" like a 1GHz Celeron or Duron.
Nah, you can't just compare a bare PPC mobo like the AmigaOne/Pegasos to an x86 offering. Economies of scale. There are millions of x86 boards in production and out there, whereas this PPC solution is new. It'll get cheaper as the manufacturing is ramped up, but small quantities will always cost more.
I for one am willing to pay the extra for PPC hardware that's not locked down to apple and their firmware.
To me it's an ethic. A way of doing things.
The OS always made using the system a dream, fast and responsive and given that ExecSG (the new kernel) is faster than QNXs' the new Amiga stuff will retain that snappy feel.
Well exec (the original kernel) has been rewritten (execSG) and is apparently achieving near real time speeds. Supposed to be faster that QNX :-)
:-)
;-)
The multitasking is as smooth and fast as ever, which should be a dream on a 800Mhz processor.
Go on do it, you know ya want to
The thing isn't even backwards compatible which would be the only reason I'd buy one
There is a built in 68k emulator in 4.0, so you can run any app that didn't bang the hardware and was OS friendly. Apparently on a 603 it's getting 060 speeds, so the 800Mhz G4 should breath some new life into the old apps while we are waiting for new ones.
Plus you can always use UAE to emulate the chipset stuff.
So far there are a few distros running on the board. SuSe, Yellow Dog, Debian, Turbo Linux.
I've ordered an XE with the upgradeable CPU module and will probably run Debian (or Gentoo if working) as the primary OS until AOS4 matures more.
Being an Amiga fan for a looong time now, I also relish the thought of running one of the PPC distros on the my newly ordered AmigaOne XE, which I will be switching to for work. Same goes for *BSD.
For me it's not just about the AmigaOS and it's future, it's about an alternative to the current crap out there, and a chance to get the hell away from WinTel.
The new version of AmigaOS is basically moving the old version across to PPC with a few enhancements. One of the main things is Virtual Memory and basic Memory Protection.
:-)
Exec has also been recoded (execSG) and is still as fast as ever. Apparently it's faster than QNX
Amen
:-)
Crispy.
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