AmigaOS and The x86 Question

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MIPS, Coldfire, ARM etc.. looks nice. What pesters me most about x86 is the total lack of good engineering.
Let's stay on big-endian with linear addressing, besides that cpu doesn't matter too much. Just the manufacturer have a good feature plan. Don't forget that ARM definitely use their legal department!, which may spell problems in the feature for any FPGA re-implementations like minimig.

Coldfire has one advantage, it's supposedly similar in instruction set to m68k so a port can be easy.

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.

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yakumo9275, Yes x86 is an example of good Marketing, not engineering. If you don't count the amount of work put into patch engineering

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Maybe people will get their hard cpu lesson when dis-trusting computing(R) is turned on by M$ or another organisation..

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Yeah, lowperforming stuff to hillarous prices won't work in the current market. And the x86-pc have caught up in some ways with cpu caches, pci bus, s-ata etc..
Something that is lacking is the performance bottleneck from protected mode/mmu, In conjuction with badly written operating systems.

boinger, Intel 8086 and compatibles