New A-EON Technology Website now live!

[outlawal2]

The site won't work on my iPhone, but judging from the comments I'm not missing much.

Works fine from my Iphone... Takes a while to load but that is AT&T not the Iphone...

[outlawal2]

Can we all just friggin MOVE ON already?  I for one am quite excited about the prospect of a new Amiga-type machine...  Will it compete with Windows and Macs.  No.  Will it be bleeding edge?  No.  Will it have the latest whiz-bang processor? No. It is a niche / hobby machine and does not need to be any of these things.. It just needs to WORK and FEEL like the Amiga of old..  The FEEL was the real beauty of the Amiga. Yes it was cutting edge when it was released, but how many of us kept using it LONG after the PC and Mac trounced it?  Hell the fact that we are still frequenting this forum proves that it wasn't the technology necessarily, it was the overall FEEL of the machine/software...  And that is what we all crave...  This new machine may fail, and it may have some success who knows?

What it WILL have is a PowerPC processor that hearkens back to the original. (And if you aren't going for an Intel killer, WHY NOT go a bit nostalgic? ) Also, keep in mind that the processor for this machine has to be somewhat easy to port OS4 over so this kills any notions of x86 processors and that is fine with me at this point.

It will also be multi-core and this is new for the Amiga platform..  I am also hoping that they institute some kind of memory protection as well...

XMOS and Xorro? Who knows?  I am not a programmer but I thought what about some kind of board that controls every aspect of your home?  (Kind of like the X11 stuff but more advanced and integrated...)   No idea, but worth a thought maybe...

Anyway, enough with the negativity and let's see if we can find a use for this thing so maybe it will be feasible...  

I am going to hold off on any of the negative statements until we actually have one of these things to play with before making any assumptions...

[outlawal2]

Actually the XMOS look interesting, I'm seriously thinking of plunking down 50 bucks and getting a usb interface so that I can play with them.

It actually mixes things up a bit, I have no interest in the X1000, but I really want to play with XMOS, so it expands the community beyond Amiga hardware/software.  Who know where that might lead?  Maybe XMOS is the future of the community.  It's cheap enough to get into and has a lot of interesting possibilities.

Please expand on the possibilities that you foresee..  (Kind of a brainstorming session )
I am very interested in your take on XMOS

[outlawal2]

Yeah, it's a bit like fish fingers and custard.  They each server there own purpose but why bring them together?

Yeah and I seem to recall "No one will EVER need more than 640k of memory",  and "Who would EVER use more than a 300 BAUD modem?"  Or Bill Gates talking about how the Internet will never amount to anything...  

I remember when I got my first 386 machine Compaq at the time did not want to sell it for home use as "It was far too powerful for home use."  

Bringing seemingly unrelated things together could very well be the next new wave of computing...  (Not saying that XMOS is going to revolutionize the world, but just because you or I don't envision a use for it yet in no way guarantees it as a flop.)