A question about XENA/XMOS

[Iggy]

XMOS processors are certainly curious devices.
And no, they are not powerful enough to emulate parts of the Amiga chipset.
But I have seen one doing a pretty credible imitation of a C64's video display generator.
And, one of the ways I came to suspect the Paul Gentle had a hand in the X1000's creation (before it was announced) was the PA6T processor used and the presence of an XMOS processor.
You see, Paul's firm had already done work with the PA6T AND Paul had published an XMOS based sound card design.

Anyway, think of it as an mcu like device added to the motherboard, flexible, but not too powerful.

[Iggy]

I don't see why anyone would be confused at the utility in having on board mcus.
I use them as peripheral interfaces and controllers in some of the things I do.
That started way back with chips like the Intel 8051, but there are a lot of others now.
ARM chips from STMicro and TI.
Mips chips like the PIC32.
At least a dozen other different ROSC designs.
And plenty of conventional designs.

[Iggy]

...The future for me isn't AOS4 or MorphOS, and I'm not even remotely interested in those software platforms. I'm not saying these platforms suck, just that I'm not interested

Not a problem.
Personally, I'm bored stiff with Amiga legacy hardware and have been experimenting with other home brew designs.
I'd like to build a cheap '040 based system with PCI expansion.
Without legacy compatibility, this should be very cheap.

And for me, the future is MorphoS (or whatever it gets called once it morphs again into 64bit).
But then, I'd freely admit that MorphOS is not Amiga (can't be - its not cursed).