AMIGAONE.... isn't it an obsolete technology already?

[Zac67]

You're saying that when AOS4 comes out, there will be an all new, shiny A1 waiting for us to install it on? Wake up, man. :roll:

[Zac67]

Back to the thread topic:
I don't know what you call
PC133 SDRAM
USB 1.1
PCI based interconnect
but I call that obsolete - nobody tries to sell machines with these specs any more.
No offense meant, I'd like to have an A1 myself since it'll probably be the last 'Amiga' ever, but with low specs and high prices the market will remain tiny, with or without a release OS4. I wonder who they want the sell the OS to when it's done. If it's done.

[Zac67]

I wasn't really ranting because of PCI (PCIe has no big advantages yet - for desktops), but because of PCI interconnect, ie the connection from the north bridge to the south bridge and everything else.
It limits the complete I/O throughput to an absolute max of 133 MB/s in total.
gigabit ethernet requires 125 MB/s
(P-)ATA requires 133 MB/s
SATA requires 150 MB/s
So each of these maxes out PCI alone.

The VIA686B south bridge is complete crap; when PCI is saturated, it starts losing data from the IDE interface. All PC boards with this south bridge suffer more or less from this, causing massive instability.

When I was talking about PC133 that included the slow FSB and AGP connect. PC133/FSB133 can't do more than 1 GB/s (very theoretical value), so heavy AGP load slows down the CPU and vice versa.