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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2004, 09:39:32 AM »
It would be Great to run AROS on an AMD 64 platform, full 64 bit OS would just be iceing on the cake. Wasn't the Amiga OS  the first 32 bit clean consumer OS ?
 

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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #15 on: January 07, 2004, 10:28:50 AM »
I would like to see the ability run multible os in a window simliar to vpc on windows but built into the os, with the ability to grap data(video, text, and sound) from the other oses.  Also i would like to see built in support for emulators for instance other cpu directory for storing basic cpu engines that can be emulated- 680x0 so programmer dont have recode for a mac or amiga emulator and ppc engine again  for mac or amiga 4os. AMD 64 support is good also.
for source code for a vpc type emulator look here
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/
 

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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #16 on: January 07, 2004, 03:22:44 PM »
Don't see why everybody seems so keen on running AROS on big irons.

AROS should concentrate on what made the Amiga the Amiga, back in those days.

"Power without the price" was the motto, not brute force with the elegance of
a 40t-truck (and even the noise level ....). My personal experience is that I the times
where I would allways need more grunt has ended 2 years ago with buying the
AthlonXP1600, and that is running Linux  :-o

A(R)OS is neat and clean and should therefore do more than o.k. with one of the
VIA-mini-ITXs. The 1GHz does need a small fan, but that shouldn't be a to big prob,
and it will surely deliever more than enough speed for any SW that AROS will get in
the coming years. Write a native/accelareted GFX-driver for it, put in in a really small case....
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2004, 03:47:15 PM »
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bloodline wrote:
 Running AROS on the Mini-ITX offers no real advantage over a Pegaos or A1.


Being cheaper and smaller is one big advantage..

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But Running AROS on an Athln64 has an obvious advantage!


And that would be ? The fact that the CPU is now iddling at 95 instead of 80% ? :-P
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #19 on: January 07, 2004, 04:05:07 PM »
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bloodline wrote:
 Running AROS on the Mini-ITX offers no real advantage over a Pegaos or A1.


Being cheaper and smaller is one big advantage..

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But Running AROS on an Athln64 has an obvious advantage!


And that would be ? The fact that the CPU is now iddling at 95 instead of 80% ? :-P


:roflmao:

oh, I don't know that voxel demos can be quite cpu intensive... I'm sure the CPU is idling at 94% :-D

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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #20 on: January 07, 2004, 04:58:37 PM »
by Kronos on 2004/1/7 10:22:44


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Don't see why everybody seems so keen on running AROS on big irons.

AROS should concentrate on what made the Amiga the Amiga, back in those days.

"Power without the price" was the motto, not brute force with the elegance of
a 40t-truck (and even the noise level ....). My personal experience is that I the times
where I would allways need more grunt has ended 2 years ago with buying the
AthlonXP1600, and that is running Linux

A(R)OS is neat and clean and should therefore do more than o.k. with one of the
VIA-mini-ITXs. The 1GHz does need a small fan, but that shouldn't be a to big prob,
and it will surely deliever more than enough speed for any SW that AROS will get in
the coming years. Write a native/accelareted GFX-driver for it, put in in a really small case....


Hey, this is AROS, do both big iron and mini-ITX. =)

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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #21 on: January 07, 2004, 05:04:00 PM »
@dammy

Well it was you, who asked for ideas about an "AROS-Ohne".
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #22 on: January 07, 2004, 05:18:17 PM »
by Kronos on 2004/1/7 12:04:00

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Well it was you, who asked for ideas about an "AROS-Ohne".


Heh, you got me there.  Think I need to do a poll for this...

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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #23 on: January 07, 2004, 05:27:02 PM »
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by Kronos on 2004/1/7 12:04:00

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Well it was you, who asked for ideas about an "AROS-Ohne".


Heh, you got me there.  Think I need to do a poll for this...

Dammy


Well don't forget to include the ZX81

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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #24 on: January 07, 2004, 07:05:26 PM »
Being AOS like AROS is, as long as it runs silent, the rest doesn't matter much to me (Mhz wise).

That, an ATI Radeon and a decent sound board would made a perfect setup, hardware wise...

Mozilla ported back to it, plus OpenOffice and some of the amiga players, and voila, a Multimedia terminal!


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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #25 on: January 07, 2004, 10:35:04 PM »
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hould concentrate on what made the Amiga the Amiga, back in those days.

"Power without the price" was the motto, not brute force with the elegance of
a 40t-truck (and even the noise level ....).


Sorry, I disagree.

The Amiga 1000 was a dreammachin first of all because most of the people dreamed of owning so much money to afford that one.

The Amiga 3000 was the same when introduced: extremely expensive.

The A4000 was expensive, too.

The cheaper Amiga 500 brought the Amiga a  game-boy like image. Similar the A 1200.

The A500+ and A600 were way overpriced or two years too late, you decide.

The CDTV was brilliant, but not understood, and DID NOT HAVE A HARDRIVE AND NO FLOPPY!

The CD32... sigh... simply too late.

On which of these qualities should AROS concentrate?

The only really balanced Amiga was the 2000, and that was expensive, too, but offered a lot for its price.

And no, I am NOT Doomy.

Anyway, I loved my 500 and now love my A1000/Phoenixboard.



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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #26 on: January 08, 2004, 07:00:51 AM »
Here is that poll was promised. ;)

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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #27 on: January 08, 2004, 07:03:35 AM »
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Here is that poll was promising. ;)

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Not anymore :-P
 

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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #28 on: January 08, 2004, 07:39:31 AM »
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Not anymore


Not working for you?

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Re: What would make a good AROS-1?
« Reply #29 from previous page: January 08, 2004, 10:43:05 AM »
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Not anymore


Not working for you?

Dammy


Poll seems to be working fine (Probably best to start a new thread about it)... I can't decide what to vote for :-(