MIPS for next Amiga

[billt]

Mips is still very much in use, buried deeply into embedded systems where you don't know or care what CPU it is. It doesn't have the mass-market brand appeal that ARM has. ARM has potential for "desktop" compute platforms in that there are high-performance parts planned and coming soon, with desktop style connectivity involved. I'm not aware of anything MIPS like that. (If anyone does, I'd be interested in learning) MIPS would still leave us mostly in hardware limbo, as there are not desktop boards or laptops being made that we could make use of.

IMHO, if AmigaOS moves away from PPC, there are only two destinations that make sense. Either x86-64 or ARM64. Due to the availability of hardware that makes sense for those available or coming...

[billt]

Desktop motheboards:

http://mattst88.com/blog/2010/11/12/The_Loongson_3A_%28Godson_3A%29_looks_nice!/

Notebooks:

http://www.technogog.com/review/alpha-400-mips-400mhz-128mb-1gb-7-linux-ultralite-note/

http://www.amazon.com/Screen-Lemote-Yeeloong-8101_B-Netbook/dp/B005XH10NQ

http://technologer.net/2009/05/15/iunika-gyy-netbook-is-low-in-specs-but-solar-powered/

That only in a 1 minute google search; if you search more in deep sure you find more

Heh. Cool. Are any of those still available? The geeks netbook is flagged as unavailable. The server/desktop boards sound nice, and even use AMD chipsets like X1000 does, kindof. The 10" notebook I find two "offers" available, which does not sound like an ongoing sale of a still manufactured product, that's how clearance or out of print things end up.  

Which is sortof the situation we are already in with PPC, where do we actually buy hardware? Sometimes we can, sometimes there is not anything to buy at all, not even used.