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Offline littleTopic starter

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OLPC, the latest missed opportunity for Amiga?
« on: September 05, 2008, 09:04:56 PM »
I am sure many people have read by now about the the new $98 USD laptop. As I read the specs:

400MHz 32bit MIPS compatible CPU
128M/64M RAM
1GB NAND Flash
Linux or WinCE
7" 800x480 display
Wireless LAN 802.11b/g
10/100M ethernet

I couldn't but think it would be cool if instead of a MIPS cpu they used a MPC5121e (or maybe even a coldfire v5). I think AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS 2 are better suited to perform ok in that speed and memory range.
 

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Re: OLPC, the latest missed opportunity for Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2008, 11:04:26 PM »
I thought the same thing when i replaced my 486 for a brand new 233MHz Pentium. Why retire my old hardware when AmigaOS 3.1 could run on it as fine as it would on a 040?

Workbench 3.1 is incredibly lean, wouldnt it be cool if it could run on routers and such, you can easely squeze it down to 5-10 MB with a GUI.

The only problem is I could you run Firefox/OpenOffice on such an Amiga device, I think those apps are very important.
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