New amiga coming out 2010..is this a wind up?

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It is a shame I couldn't see passed my blond cheerleader wig and pom poms back then

Neither could Collas :laughing:

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it can match x86 computing power, look to the PS3 powerful and cheap

Please - can't we once and for all kill the misconception that a PS3 can match x86 in "computing power"? It cannot, not by a longshot. Yes, you can program the SPEs in a PS3 to do insanely limited tasks insanely fast, if programmed correctly.  But 99.99% of the time you're not interested in doing such limited tasks, and that 3.2GHz PowerPC is the world's slowest CPU with that clockspeed - ever! Running Linux, my old 1,33GHz G4 iBook runs in circles around the PS3 on ordinary daily tasks. The PS3 was interesting for HPC usage exactly because they often have the need to do the insanely limited computations, but ordinary people do not!

Sheesh!!!

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Actually, I think even Hyperion would love to port OS4.x to X86 but they face two huge obstacles........time and money.

And byteorder.

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Well, all the software available for AmigaOS today, from 1.x to 4.x assumes bigendian, change that and there will be major breakage. Which is fine by me, the opportunity can be used to fix all the other issues as well, memory protection and all that. And instead of integrated emulation to run old apps you would need a much more boxed solution.

An alternative is to go ARM which can be run in both bigendian and little-endian modes.