This just might be the final nail in the Hyperion coffin. They really botched the PR on this X1000 product. A week of baiting hype followed up by focusing on this XMOS chip. A lot of folks are jazzed about this little embedded processor and coming up with some really bizarre ideas about what it will be capable of. Some lame (nothing wrong with that), others impractical, some impossible. The expectations are high and this thing ain't gonna deliver. Well, not unless hyperion writes all the code themselves, which they won't.
For every 20 people who come up with fantastical crazy ideas about stuff the XMOS chip isn't suited for, perhaps 1 person will code a demo to render a fractal or something on it? Maybe blink some LEDs?
What Hyperion needed to do was have a motherboard ready for sale day one of their website launch. Something reasonably fast to run AOS4 and demonstrate that they're alive and committed to their OS. Instead we got 5 days of more hype, nothing to buy, and rabid amigans fantasizing about weird little embedded chips.
If I wanted to play with the XMOS chip, I wound't buy an Amiga to do that, I'd buy the $99 dev kit and plug it into a windows machine where I could actually use the development tools.
