News on the X1000!

[jorkany]

Using a proven OS like Linux to test hardware is a good idea. But I wonder why this testing wasn't being done early last year, when the first Rev. 2 boards demo boards were produced?

[jorkany]

This is good news, linux on x1000, its a shame its another delay, but really people do you have bring up price and every other fault on each x1000 thread.

Plus why do people think OS4 is not ready for it yet, did no one go to any amiga show this year and watch all them vids of the OS4 running on the system. ok it still maybe alpha stage but it was up and running.

Then where is it? They just pushed the beta testers back to Q2. If OS4 is ready and the board is ready, why is testing being done just now using Linux? That should have been done months - heck almost a year - ago.

Look, you've got to admit something ain't right. This product was due before Summer 2010, then it became beta testers before end of 2010, then it became beta testers in Q1 2011, now it's Q2 2011. Surely you can spot the trend here?

[jorkany]

@Jorkany
It was explained at www.amigaworld.net that it was a needed step to give the green light to production of a significantly higher amount of boards (compared to the very limited Rev.1 batch).

Could you link to where someone from A-eon or Hyperion said that?

AmigaOS might be ready for testing, but not to check out if the motherboard is working 100% and not flawed itself (you don't want to use an OS in need of testing for that).
Hence the need for a finalized OS suite to check things out and give the green light.

And of course the logical time to do this is after missing several stated release dates and  just before ostensibly sending the first boards to the paid beta testers.

So what's been going on the past year or so as these release dates keep slipping? Just crappy management?

[jorkany]

Again, as I asked earlier, has there been some disruption in OS4 development (specifically for the X1000 and SAM460)?

Also, does anyone know where A-eon sourced the PA6T processors used in the X1000? There have been conflicting statements made about this.
Varisys, the designer of the X1000, has removed all mention of the PA6T from their website (including the board they made with that processor).

How does Trevor intend to continue to build a board based on a processor that has a limited future?

In one of the news items on the A-eon site (due to the crappy design of that site news items cannot be linked) it was explained that Varisys had an existing relationship with PA Semi, and they leveraged that to source the processors. It does not say what the actual source was however.

I've also read, either on a forum or an interview, that the followup to the X1000 isn't necessarily going to use PA6T. At the rate things are going that probably won't be this decade.

[jorkany]

any/all XMOS apps plus any other area where extra speed would be required i.e 3D rendering, video applications etc.
also running old 68k apps/games with E-UAE (with integrated solutions like glUAE or RunInUAE) would drastically benefit from the extra speed

Of those which do you find to be of the most benefit on your X1000?

[jorkany]

X1000 progress report from Varisys.
Funny how this kind of stuff isn't on the A-eon site. They'll probably claim Adam Barnes violated their NDA or something!

http://moobunny.dreamhosters.com/cgi/mbmessage.pl/amiga/187370.shtml

[jorkany]

So the speculations of yet another delay is now officially confirmed...?

A-eon had already confirmed a delay to 2nd quarter for the beta boards a few days ago.

Funny thing is how the people who were saying "give 'em until the end of March" when the last delay was announced are now backslapping about the explanation for this new delay. I wonder what it will be next time, around June?

[jorkany]

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