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Re: When are AOS4 released?
« on: January 23, 2005, 06:46:09 PM »
My guess mon the ack-boards (and yes it's only a guess, but I do have a tendency to be right on spot with these):

- the small one is based on a reference design for a microcontroller
- the big one is still in a planning (aka non-working) state

So back to the small one  :-o

- ack did transport that design onto a card in the right format for the A1200 trapdoor

- he also added a GFX-core and other things

- he did test the Linux that came with the original reference design

- A1200 slot ? not tested

- GFX-core ? not tested (only terminal over serial)

- IDE-controller ? not sure (netboot or similar should be possible with the reference design)

And I'm quite sure we would have heard if I were wrong on any of these points  :-(
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Re: When are AOS4 released?
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2005, 10:11:45 PM »
@Rogue

Sometimes I really ask myself what your problem is ....

Did I ever say that ACK would be lying ? No I only said that one shouldn't interpret more into his statement ("linux runs on it") then there actually is.

And yes, being a bit cynic after 10 years of empty promises and hyped-up news-releases from ALL players and all colors is more than warranted.

And your replies sofar show pretty well that even you don't know any details and prefer to derail it into troll-land instead of just countering my argumentation...

I didn't comment on the thread you linked to for a simple reason, the info on the "Peg3" where just as thin as they were on the Peg2 a year earlier, which contrary to many doubts turned out to be real....
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Re: When are AOS4 released?
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2005, 03:21:50 PM »
@cgutjahr

Either your definition of "not much memory left" is quite different than mine or OS4 is a resource-eater compared to the competion.

MOS1.4 with JIT, and all standart eyecandy eats just 29MB out the 128 on my Peg1, and I can't remember ever running out of RAM on this baby (except when I tried to unarc big archives into RAM: offcourse :oops: ). And it was mainly used for developing.

Also note that PPC code maybe twice as big, the data your are handling is still the same size, and even the most advanced Amiga-apps will stay quite a way from having 20MB or so in exe-files :-P

64MB should leave you with ~30MB free, which should be enough for standard tasks.
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