freqmax wrote:
MIPS, Coldfire, ARM etc.. looks nice. What pesters me most about x86 is the total lack of good engineering.
The modern x86 is an example of amazing engineering! Why don't you read actual technical documents before you make grand sweeping statements...
Let's stay on big-endian with linear addressing,
Why big-endian?
What is so special about it?
What makes big-endian any superior to little-endian?
Linear addressing? As in a flat address space? all modern CPU's have that, and the x86 comes with a fantastic MMU as well, its virtual memory support is possibly the best of any CPU!!!
besides that cpu doesn't matter too much. Just the manufacturer have a good feature plan.
I agree 100%
Don't forget that ARM definitely use their legal department!, which may spell problems in the feature for any FPGA re-implementations like minimig.
How, what? why?
Coldfire has one advantage, it's supposedly similar in instruction set to m68k so a port can be easy.
No easier than any other CPU...
What AmigaOS has over other OS is Speed! and small resource need. Let's compete with the strong sides, and not bother to compete where AmigaOS has it's weaknesses.
AmigaOS has weak task and Memory management... that puts it off the radar for almost all applications now... I can't think of one single modern application (other than perhaps as a teaching tool) where I would choose AmigaOS over Linux, now... the ship as they say has sailed...
