Is anybody thinking about joining the Rebellion (Pegasos/MOS)?

[AmigaMac]

I was just curious if anyone is thinking about jumping the fence for Pegasos and MorphOS?  I'll have to admit that though I am more inclined to have an AmigaOne and AOS 4, but I am more impressed with what Pegasos has to offer in regards to hardware components.  The 'geek port' (as they say in BeOS land) is what impresses me most, though the Dual G3/G4 option is also nice.  But does MorphOS take advantage of a dual CPU configuration, or will the apps with any type of MP awareness be the only benefactors?

Who supports Pegasos and MorphOS, where is their 'Community' or are there some here amongst you?

Just curious on what is going through some of your guys (and gals if any) mind on the whole thing...

Oh I'm not trying to start a flamewar or anything!

[AmigaMac]

but decided not to when I decided to get a luggable PC for work

I have a friend here that just bought a BareBones PC that is mobile basically.  He said he didn't mean to buy it, but it looked so cool and he just couldn't resist.

As for Pegasos/MOS, I haven't really kept up on their happenings, except for tidbits here and there from Amiga.org or other news clippings.  To be honest, I'm more interested in running BeOS on that board than anything else.  I am in discussion with a few guys that are also interested in porting OpenBeOS over to Pegasos, so maybe I'll grab one of these boards just for that and maybe for Linux/MOL as well.

[AmigaMac]

What 'geek port'? The AmigaOneXE has a dual-CPU option too. But MOS and AOS4 won't be able to do anything useful with such a setup though.

I'm talking about the available ports:

*IEEE1394 (Firewire) VIA VT6306 with 100/200/400 MBit data transfer
*10/100 MBit Realtek Phyceiver 8201 Ethernet
*USB I/O system VIA 8231 with four connectors
*AC97 sound subsystem Sigmatel STAC 9766 Codec with mic input, line in/out and headset connector
*IRDA for infra-red remote control
*ATA100 VIA 8231 with two channels for upto four ATA devices
*PS/2 mouse connector
*RS232 (serial) port
*Centronics port
*Gameport for PC-compatible joysticks

Basically overkill similar to the old BeBoxen!

[AmigaMac]

Okay Kent, we'll be awaiting your comparison review in the near future hopefully :-D

[AmigaMac]

ne_one,

Hey... I just wanted to say, AWESOME AVATAR!!! 8-)

[AmigaMac]

If WinXP required dongled x86 boards, there would be an uproar from people having to pay for Microsoft to physically dongle every x86 board on the market.

Well other than building your own and/or buying a whitebox (brandless) PC, that's exactly what you're doing!  How do you think Microsoft got some of its marketshare... it's forced upon the consumer regardless if Windows is shipped with a branded PC or not!

[AmigaMac]

what the hell is that?

Looks like more 'uselessware' for Windows to me!