Apparently I'm in the minority thinking that it would be cool to have this functionality in a machine. Getting emulation cores running on the XMOS could offer great functionality. That alone would be a big benefit. It would be cool to somehow adapt one of the XMOS dev kits to interface with my A1200T running OS4 classic. I am not sure what I'd run on it but wonder if it would outperform my not-so-speedy 603e.
Tbh all this xmos crap seems like a waste of time nobody will ever use for anything. The site makes it look like this will get some serious use in business environments, when it won't. If this was 2003 they'd have NASA on board ( Although it's a lot different to the classic amigas they used, the brand recognition would help a hell of a lot, not to mention it's probably better for real time than a peecee), but it isn't, and they don't. I'd rather they used the time to make this to improve classic compatibility instead. I mean, they have a 3.1 license, they could just sandbox 68k apps the same way "classic" mode in osx worked. Then we could happily have hardware banging stuff running again, and they could pull a finger out their arse and finally give us memory protection, user accounts and some form of security at all for OS4 native.
What's more important to you, compatibility or a useless gimmick chip that nobody needs?
EDIT: depending on how much the price compares to a second hand Mac Mini G4 i'll buy one. Unless a WinUAE dev finds a clue and puts in PPC emulation.
