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Re: ARM for the future?
« on: January 13, 2011, 03:22:41 PM »
I've been saying for years now that ARM is a great option.  With each passing month, new and even better news is coming out for ARM support.
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Re: ARM for the future?
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2011, 02:21:34 PM »
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Because the PowerPC was for the last 13 years, the technology that made our hobby - Amiga - interesting.


X86 has made - AROS - interesting.

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That is why morons like you should understand that people feel sympathy for this technology.


Name calling really justified?  No it's not.

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Amiga Os is a system which, due to Forbid/Permit, messages system, can not work effectively on more than one core.


Truism, I think the Hyperion team will find this out with attempting to drag OS4 into AMP.

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Thats why, transfer of the operating system to x86, ARM or other crap will not bring major changes in performance.


Then why is AROS flying on x86 then?

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Performance of one core, the fastest x86 is only 2.9 times better than the G4. x86 is not even three times faster,  only two of something.


Last CPU comparison chart I saw shows G5 is about equal to a 1.8GHz Athlon.  

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We do not intend to sell 13 years of our history, for peanuts.


Who's history?  AROS has been on x86 for what, 15 years now?  AROS is slowly coming to ARM and 68K as well as PPC.  Why aren't the other Amiga-like OSs been ported yet to other arches?
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Re: ARM for the future?
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2011, 09:29:30 PM »
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AROS is not Amiga, AROS is untested, not working crap.


Worked fine for me for the past six or so years.  Funny that.

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Quality and compatybility justified.


With UAE integration, compatibility is not a issue anymore.

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AROS is incompatible because it was developed without any testing of existing 68k software.


It didn't need to be, it was a OS blazing a new trail in the x86 world.  What it needed was the UAE integration for running AOS games/apps which should have been done years ago.  I guess it's better late then never.

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I'll believe it when I see it.


Fair enough.

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Windows fly on my pc, linux fly on my pc, AROS move slow like a turtle on my pc. This shit is running on one core only, and on my Atlhon X2 64 is as fast as my G4.


AROS was plenty snappy running on my old Dell Latitude 233MHz laptop.  It was blazingly fast on my old 1.4GHz noname laptop.  I wonder what is h0rked on your box.

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Like I said.

Amiga History of course.

 And how much of that time, this system worked on the Amiga?

Three months?


Natively on a Amiga68K machine, probably a bit less.  I will point out that no other Amigaoid OS is running on a stock A1200, except for AROS.  There was a native AROS68K in unmaintained section of the AROS SVN for the last seven plus years.  There was work on it, just never maintained while AROS x86 and AROS PPC went forward in development.




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Blizzard PPC card Cyberstorm PPC we can enjoy for 13 years.


Will that same PPC software run on a stock A1200?  I don't think so.  Neither OS4 nor MOS will run on a stock A1200 but AROS will but that doesn't seem to gain any favor from you.

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Re: ARM for the future?
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2011, 04:44:51 PM »
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Hey, sorry if this has been posted before (i didn't search because i don't really care too much about arm stuff)

anywhooo I came across this site whist searching for casemod stuff and its only 150bucks. and it has opengl, may be cool for what you guys are talking about.

 http://beagleboard.org/hardware

its called the beagleboard and it has some pretty cool specs (maybe i will get interested in arm)

actually here is the main site they have one available for 125. oh and this thing runs linux.

http://beagleboard.org/


You may want to look at EFIKA-MX http://www.genesi-usa.com/products/efika since it has case, more RAM, 8GB SSD and other perks that will drive Beagleboards total cost upwards.
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Re: ARM for the future?
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2011, 05:18:49 PM »
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Maybe this was already mentioned.  2GHZ ARM cortex

http://www.slashgear.com/nufront-nusmart-2815-2ghz-arm-cortex-a9-looks-to-squash-tegra-2-video-14102190/



That looks pretty impressive.
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