Interview with Trevor Dickinson

[SysAdmin]

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During Vintage Computer Fair, which took place last Saturday, Nicholas and Richard Piotrowski exclusively for PPA (Polish Amiga News Portal) interviewed Trevor Dickinson from A-EON.

Apart from what have been already discussed in the forum, he mentions some interesting new issues concerning X1000 system and its future. Interview is available both in Polish and English.

[Delta]

Summer release is now an autumn/winter release? Good news is that it gives more time to stash some money but still the price...ouch!

for what the machine can do...   unless the software can keep it useful (and fun) for at least 12 years

[runequester]

the morphos dudes will be thrilled that he has a machine with it installed Im sure

[haywirepc]

200,000 euro investment? Is he serious? 200k euro investment in 5 year old spec power pc hardware?

If I had 200k to invest in a hardware project for resale, I'd be researching quad core quad socket, quad cpu motherboards with 16 or more processing cores and research putting additional processors on pci cards, 4-8 per expansion slot. I'd want a computer with 7 slots for plenty of expansion, and probably an old school REAL full tower case.
Thats where power mac, linux and windows user will be going in 5+ years, ridiculous multiprocessing.  If someone came along and beat them all there by 5+ years... well...
 
I guess I'll have to wait for my computer with 16 primary processing cores and 30 secondary processors... sigh.
 
Steven

[runequester]

and even with 16 cores, whatever version of windows they are peddling by then will still make it run essentially at the same speed as a 16 meg scumpaq running windows 3.1

[haywirepc]

Yes your absolutely right, but I'll be running linux or hackintosh
 
Steven

[runequester]

Yes your absolutely right, but I'll be running linux or hackintosh
 
Steven

"liberating" PC's

[mpiva]

200,000 euro investment? Is he serious? 200k euro investment in 5 year old spec power pc hardware?

If I had 200k to invest in a hardware project for resale, I'd be researching quad core quad socket, quad cpu motherboards with 16 or more processing cores and research putting additional processors on pci cards, 4-8 per expansion slot. I'd want a computer with 7 slots for plenty of expansion, and probably an old school REAL full tower case.
Thats where power mac, linux and windows user will be going in 5+ years, ridiculous multiprocessing.  If someone came along and beat them all there by 5+ years... well...
 
I guess I'll have to wait for my computer with 16 primary processing cores and 30 secondary processors... sigh.
 
Steven

Yes, because surely, with 200,000 euro, you'd be able to design a computer that'd blow away anything multi-billion dollar companies could possibly come up with. :rolleyes:

[Tension]

I bet he could have got AmigaOS converted to x86 for 200000 quid!

[dammy]

I bet he could have got AmigaOS converted to x86 for 200000 quid!

Excellent point!

[mongo]

200,000 euros is an insane amount to spend on developing a motherboard.

[haywirepc]

Yes its alot, especially for a motherboard that is so standard blah.

[persia]

€200K on a board that is not only bog standard, but is also old technology and will only sell a few hundred.

[koaftder]

It would be interesting to know how much of that 200k euro went directly to Hyperion and if any of that money was from business development grants from the government.

[koaftder]

Excellent point!

That works out to like 3 guys @ 80k USD for 1 year. Could three guys port AOS 4 over to x86 in one year?