OpenSource for Amiga.

[bloodline]

Hmm, so Genesi are allowed to spout crap here, but Amiga Inc. aren't?  

Genesi made a Hypathetical statment... HMetal
 was was just being nasty.

-Edit- Anyway, I don't want to continue this. It's just flame bait.

[Argo]

Yes, it is. After one little message too.

Let's get back to discussing the virtues of Open Source projects, such as the Amizilla Prize and such.

[bloodline]

Argo wrote:
Yes, it is. After one little message too.

Let's get back to discussing the virtues of Open Source projects, such as the Amizilla Prize and such.

I think that OpenOffice is more important than Amizilla, but I guess much much harder to do...  :-(

[Argo]

Because two flames don't make a right.  
He's been moderated. It's over. Move along. Nothing to see here.

[HMetal]

LOL.  Well, at least I can say that you're equally fair, Argo, even if it wasn't until after a little prodding. ;-)

[Argo]

"Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows it"
Obi-Wan Kenobi

[downix]

Edited by Argo: Off Topic

[HMetal]

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[T_Bone]

Edited by Argo: Off Topic

Reedited by TBone :-P

"Help, Help! I'm being repressed" - Monty Python
:python:  :python:  :python:  

[HMetal]

Edited by Argo: Off Topic

Anyways, back to the topic.. :-)

[Dr_Righteous]

Tickly wrote:

Nobody thinks 68k is the future. :-D

If somehow someone could come up with a 1GHz+ 68060, I'd go with that over anything else!

[bloodline]

Dr_Righteous wrote:

Tickly wrote:

Nobody thinks 68k is the future. :-D

If somehow someone could come up with a 1GHz+ 68060, I'd go with that over anything else!

Facinating thought... A quick look at the Pentium III documentation show that the microcode* can be updated by the BIOS during the POST...
hmmm, my brain starts to wander... Some with expereince in PentiumIII microcode code could, I'm sure recode the PIII to become 68k compatible... of course there is the endieness issue :-? (which could be worked out, though I imagine at a performace price).
If the PIII can be microcode updated on the fly... maybe the Athlon64 could be too!!! :-D

BTW, if anyone did write a 68k compatible microcode update for a 1Ghz PIII, I'd by it from them in a flash!!! :-o

*Microcode is the lowest low level programming language of the CPU... the CPU instructions are coded in Microcode, and one can alter the CPU's instruction set by Coding the Microcode.  

[Dr_Righteous]

I'd sh** a gold brick!

[Atheist]

Isn't micro-code rom circuits? Unalterable.

AmigaOne! 1GHz 68060 + 500 MHz AGA? Wish upon a star....

[T_Bone]

bloodline wrote:

Dr_Righteous wrote:

Tickly wrote:

Nobody thinks 68k is the future. :-D

If somehow someone could come up with a 1GHz+ 68060, I'd go with that over anything else!

Facinating thought... A quick look at the Pentium III documentation show that the microcode* can be updated by the BIOS during the POST...
hmmm, my brain starts to wander... Some with expereince in PentiumIII microcode code could, I'm sure recode the PIII to become 68k compatible... of course there is the endieness issue :-? (which could be worked out, though I imagine at a performace price).
If the PIII can be microcode updated on the fly... maybe the Athlon64 could be too!!! :-D

BTW, if anyone did write a 68k compatible microcode update for a 1Ghz PIII, I'd by it from them in a flash!!! :-o

*Microcode is the lowest low level programming language of the CPU... the CPU instructions are coded in Microcode, and one can alter the CPU's instruction set by Coding the Microcode.  

When rumors of "Transmeta & Amiga" were flying about a few years ago, I figured they had something like this up their sleeves.

[bloodline]

Atheist wrote:
Isn't micro-code rom circuits? Unalterable.

AmigaOne! 1GHz 68060 + 500 MHz AGA? Wish upon a star....

Well often it is!!! But when I was playing around with Open BIOS (in an effort to Replace the PC BIOS with AROS), I discovered that the PIII requries a microcode update during POST.
I imagine the intel chip is so buggy, that they had to allow updates after the unit has been shipped. :-o