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Re: Has anyone used AmigaOS XL?
« on: January 24, 2005, 04:22:35 PM »
Tstst it's so easy....

AmigaXL == UAE for QNX
Amithlon == tailor-made JIT on a minimal Linux-kernel, with direct acces to the host HW.

AmigaOS-XL == package containig AmigaXL, Amithlon, OS3.9, ONX, AmigaWriter and ArtEffect3.

@adolescent

Amithlon at that time reached about twice the speed on pure calculation, GFX-acceses was a complete leaque of it's own du to directly writting into the AGP-card instead of an emulated Z3-card which was than copied into the AGP-card by the host OS.

Removing most of the chipset support also meant that syncronsation wasn't an issue anymore, which is the major reason for the better JIT-performance, and useing native x86-code in GFX-drivers and such gave another boost, so you can still bet my hairy palm  :lol: that Amithlon will easily beat UAE on the same HW (if the HW is supported by one of the Amithlon-kernels).
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