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they show MorphOS team ability to survive in times left with no hardware company beneath.
As does most OS's, except perhaps MacOS.
As I tried to discuss above, going the Acube/Aeon route would have put MorphOS in a much worse position than what it is today. The problem isn't lack of HW, the problem is PPC and a dead architecture. But the MorphOS team surely made the most out of what was available. Soon there isn't anything more worth supporting.
you :should have a boxed one, with manual
Completely unnecessary. Only makes it more expensive and doesn't bring any real additional value.
and a bit preconfigured for the machine (even its seen as weakness :-)
I think you misinterpreted my above answer to kamelito — of course MorphOS is configured to run on the machines it supports!
SAM 460 port could be first one for team to do so?
The fact that OS4 users are prone to pay sh!tloads of money for OS4 stuff (HW, OS, boxes with boing balls etc) doesn't automatically mean they are willing to pay similar amounts for an expensive cardboard box with printed manual for MorphOS. After all, it isn't "teh reel!!1!" and doesn't have a boing ball slapped on it.
That will give presentable MOS product as such - not just Amigan geek thing.
Amiga geeks are the only ones interested in MorphOS in its current incarnation.
Having cheaper Acube products needs only higher volumes - something MOS can contribute
Volumes are so low in Acube products anyway that a MorphOS port couldn't do a thing to improve economy of scale. To be able to lower price thanks to economy of scale, you need mass production in China and bulk purchasing of components in tens of thousands. I don't see how a MorphOS port could have that kind of result on Acube sales.
eventually introducing some dual core high end replacement
Amiga is single core only. It can't be anything else (except through asymmetric multi processing, which isn't really that useful for general usage). If MorphOS would introduce true SMP, then Amiga compatibility has to be broken anyway, so why bother with PPC at all at that point? Why not go to a HW architecture that still has a pulse? Besides, MorphOS already runs on dual CPU HW (single core, of course).
that would bring SAM 460 as total OS4 low end, effectively replacing 440 (kind of what Flex did to integrated EP niodel).
Everything "Sam" is very low end...
Eventually it might become only cheaper, it can hardly be more expensive (for end users).
That's what I and most people thought as well a few years ago. Then came A-eon and proved everyone wrong! :lol:
It will end blue - red war in nice fashion, OS4 port for Peg2 did.
Funny that they only released OS4 for Pegasos 2 after it had reached EOL (I know for a fact that OS4 was running on the Peg2 long before it was released), when it could no longer help sales or grow the Peg2 community. Anyway, OS4 users could only buy Pegasos 2 as second hand HW. Think about that, you "but-it's-not-new-HW" crybabies! :lol:
Enable people to use both if they want. In such regards until x86 or ARM transition is done also SAM 440 (not to hard to derive from SAM 460 port since CPU is same)
The CPU is absolutely not the same, and neither is anything else. Sam440 may be faster than an Efika5k2, but it's still only "G2" class HW thus it's not very useful. The Efika5k2 (while having some quirks, oddities and bottle necks) at least have the quite big advantage of costing only $99. MorphOS already supports that, if you are interested in that kind of low power HW. And it can
still be bought as new. But few people ought to be interested in that type of HW so I can't see how it would be worth the effort.
and even X1000 should be kept as viable targets.
Even those systems are expensive, they already have some customers (250 OS4 users) that could be added
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of those 250 OS4 users also has a MorphOS system today. Running on a cheap Mac. There are a lot more "dual users" than many seems to think. They aren't always making a lot of fuss about it though.
and offer PCI-E, SATA and other modern standards often beyond Mac
Here we go again! :rolleyes:
SATA isn't anything magic or anything "milestone"-alike, and MorphOS already supports a SATA card for those who need one. And PCI-E is just a freakin'
bus, there is no magic or "milestone" there either! The day the MorphOS team decides to support a motherboard that is using a PCI-E controller, then they will simply write support for that controller, just like they always do with all the other controllers on all the other motherboards they decides to support. No magic involved, no "technology milestones". And certainly no X1000 is needed for anything.
and there aren`t 2005 performers.
The PA6T is the most powerful of them all, and it performs on par with (or slightly below) 2005 level G4 Mac's.
