Tbh all this xmos crap seems like a waste of time nobody will ever use for anything. The site makes it look like this will get some serious use in business environments, when it won't. If this was 2003 they'd have NASA on board ( Although it's a lot different to the classic amigas they used, the brand recognition would help a hell of a lot, not to mention it's probably better for real time than a peecee), but it isn't, and they don't. I'd rather they used the time to make this to improve classic compatibility instead. I mean, they have a 3.1 license, they could just sandbox 68k apps the same way "classic" mode in osx worked. Then we could happily have hardware banging stuff running again, and they could pull a finger out their arse and finally give us memory protection, user accounts and some form of security at all for OS4 native.
What's more important to you, compatibility or a useless gimmick chip that nobody needs?
EDIT: depending on how much the price compares to a second hand Mac Mini G4 i'll buy one. Unless a WinUAE dev finds a clue and puts in PPC emulation.
