Sony's Cell chip for a New Amiga

[Digiman]

Atom - now that's a true bit of junk.

Anyway, Hyperion haven't got the resources to port AmigaOS to another platform, so x86 and ARM are currently out of the question.

Which is why they don't deserve the IP for AmigaOS.

[Digiman]

...do you think it's possible? Discuss!

CELL is not ideal for OS execution because the SPUs are weak. Xenon (3 main CELL cores) is better and cheaper.

Someone may know this......do IBM produce any regular G5 PowerPC servers (or did so in the past)? Also do IBM currently sell any servers using the Xenon (CELL derived) CPU?

[Digiman]

Software compatibility? For AROS, sure, but not for AmigaOS! Other operating systems - Linux is on ARM and x86, Android is ARM and soon x86.

Samsung will have their 2.0GHz ARM Cortex A15 dual-core out early next year - that will outperform even the fastest Atom (event the 2.13GHz ones). The ARM ecosystem is simply far more interesting at the moment.

Windows 8 will also have a release on ARM.

But both are to pedestrian compared to £400 i7 PC right now let alone in the future years.

IMO just convert OS4 to x86-64bit and be done with it.

[Digiman]

Maybe, but what about Amithlon?
Apparently there's an 'Amithlon Revival Project' going on right now....
 
> http://code.google.com/p/amithlon-revival/

Not long ago I trawled the internet about Amithlon and found an interview with the creator. Was quite sad he felt the need to wipe the improved update.

Amithlon did more for reviving Amiga in its short life than Hyperion has done to date.

Today maybe it's impossible to genuinely revive Amiga because the software written for real Amigas, like browsers/codec support etc, is 15 years old. Does it matter even?