So what is XMOS good for?

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C'mon guys, at least give some developers a chance to play with it before writing it off as useless.

How much RAM does it have?  64K?

[dammy]

I'm thinking of porting the compiler over to AROS, just to be a dick, just so AROS users can brag that they got to play with the cheap XMOS dev kits first without paying 2,000 for the privilege of having the uber l33t new hyperion OS/mobo combo and still have to compile their junk on a mac or pc.

https://www.xmos.com/technology/design-tools-source

I thought it was all closed sourced tools, nice to see I'm wrong.  How big of a job would it be to do the port?

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@all I can definetly see some very good uses of the xmos. Like integrated robotics interface, advanced gate controller plus lots more. I am sure its some thing the company I hope to start can use.

What does integrated robotics or advance gate controller have to do with end users and their desktops?  Or for that matter on a pure hobby level, why wouldn't USB be enough for a hobby robotic controller?

[dammy]

IBM exited the embedded processor market not the PowerPC market (IBM has just recently announced the new PowerPC A2), and while I don't have the numbers, I would imagine Freescale spends about as much on semiconductor R+D as Motorola did.

Freescale's main focus is on ARM market and not PPC.

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I am just telling you what I can see it used for.

Your opinion is based on what, PR spin?  Here is a good place to inform me of what the virtues of having XMOS vs USB (2.x or 3.x) for those who want to use OS4.

[dammy]

Instead of being so extremely negative and shooting down every positive thing there is to say. BTW its very hard to have a debate with that attitude..

In other words, you have nothing to bring to the discussion on the value of XMOS brings to desktop OS4 users over a USB controller?  

But please tell me what kind of mobo you, thats all you nay sayers, would have come up with?

Anything cheap.  If you haven't noticed, it's very rough economic environment out there and there is so little excessive cash that users

I dont know what CPU it will use, I dont know the  price, so I would not say its under powered and way to expensive.

We do know it's PPC so that alone for the best you can hope for is what we already find mid level desktops.  I have yet to see a cheap PPC for desktop.