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Re: A-EON FAQ Part 1 & Part 2
« on: March 19, 2010, 09:22:44 AM »
The specifications about this machines are still no clearer. Most of all it sounds like they want to say that it's just another overpriced PPC motherboard.

Some of the answers in that FAQ seem to want to downplay the XMOS chip which I think is a bad sign and there is still no word on how the chip is to be interfaced other than it's "on the bus" (DMA? Interrupts?). Also, I don't expect the celebrated XMOS Design Tools will be availbale for AmigaOS. If they were, I'm sure it would have been mentioned already.

Admittedly I'm still wrestling with understanding just how the XMOS chip works and what it might do. The documentation isn't terribly well-written. For instance the Assembly Language Manual lists the mnemonics for all the assembly language instructions and their operands but doesn't bother mentioning what the instructions actually do.