New Amiga Accelerators

[Piru]

@bd1308

Let me guess, you want preorders?

Anyway 50+ orders would be enough? That'd be $15000, hardly enough to cover the labour costs for single person for couple of months. You gotta be kidding me...

[Piru]

how did PHASE5 accomplish this impossible task?

By actually having a market of thousands rather than 50. By actually having competent developers and designers.

Oh, and they did go under eventually.

[Piru]

AOS would see is as a hard drive in a PCI slot, but it's made of RAM!

It would not. No drivers.

big market potential.

lol

Since you CAN'T turn off the swap file on an XP (it won't work right anymore, it is pure garbage), then people would want to use it as swap space!!!

That's huge load of nonsense. First of all you can turn the swap off and it works just fine. Second you would obviously put the memory to the mobo directly, rather than going thru dead slow PCI bus.

But hey, tens of GB/s isn't as impressive as 159,600,000 Bytes per second!!!!!!!!

[Piru]

Isn't it much cheaper to buy 3 1 Gigs?

You lose dual channel for 1GB of memory then. Bad. 2 x 2GB is much better idea, even if you lose the 1GB due to 32bit OS.

Funny that, AOS came out in 1985, with a 2 Gig limit and billy gates, in 2008 has a mere 1 Gig ram space edge over us!

You're living is some parallel universe. 64-bit vista can handle 8GB (home), 16GB (home premium) and 128+ GB (the rest).

In 32-bit XP, the 3GB limit is actually hardware one. Windows XP itself could easily use more.

[Piru]

On the NatAmi60, they're making PCI drivers, and to the computer, it would look like a NORMAL IDE controller.

NORMAL IDE controller doesn't work either. No drivers.

It's a HARD DRIVE made of 4 CF cards..... Not main system ram.

Hard drive keeps its contents over power off. What you're proposing is a not a hard disk, and it has absolutely zero benefit over system main memory.

On the Amiga 1000 in 1985, it was a hardware one too!

But AmigaOS cannot use more than 2GB, even though the hardware would allow it.

[Piru]

Huh? It's using CF, compact flash cards, all the contents would still be there the next day, you can boot up off of it!

Ah, I failed to see your change of mind. You first spoke of ram disk that would lose its contents at power off.

I think sane people would ONLY choose an Amiga capped at 2 gigs of ram over xp capped at 3!

If you say so. However, outside of the fanboy fantasy world...

[Piru]

@aperez

Which parts exactly were ignorant or wrong? How?

[Piru]

@aparez

So you're a system admin. That alone doesn't qualify you for much, however (and dropping all those hw specs... oh please).

I also want specific examples, thank you.