Roadshow for 68K -Needs your support!

[wawrzon]

@tahoe: looks like u will need to buy 20 keyfiles..

[olsen]

Just want to toss in some numbers from a slightly different world, using wget to download a 88,616,960 bytes file from a webserver on same LAN, over IPv6 (for what it's worth), to /dev/null - all machines running Linux 2.6.30:

A1200, Blizzard 1230IV 50MHz 68030, Micronik-ZII, A2065: 169 s, ~512 KB/s
A1200, Blizzard 1260, 50MHz 68060, N2000 PCMCIA: 95s, ~910 KB/s
Macintosh Quadra 610, 25MHz 68040: 94s, ~920 KB/sec

I recently moved 3 TBytes in thirty seconds when I replaced the two drives in my NAS ;-)

But seriously, you see what kind of hardware the A2065 is. This is the oldest kind of networking gear for the Amiga you might find that still works. Curiously, the Ariadne I uses an AMD clone of the same chip that's in the A2065 (the A2065 uses the original CMOS LANCE chip, if I remember correctly), but it runs so much faster. The original Amiga a2065.device is also known not to be the fastest design, although your test didn't use it.

The NE2000 PCMCIA NIC test suggests that the CPU and memory performance does have a significant impact on the NIC performance after all. I was skeptical about that, but the somewhat disappointing performance of an NE2000 PCMCIA card in the plain vanilla 68EC020 A1200 (480 KByte/s) speaks for itself, if you can get almost 910 KByte/s out of the same type of hardware.

[olsen]

Olsen

thanks for your response. I understand what you mean by burnt out. After my time with Genesi I couldnt even turn on my peg...  glad you are back.

Thank you. I always thought that it would never happen to me that way, but you get burned more easily than you might think.

It's never a good idea to read up on ailments (because, as even Mark Twain noted, all the symptoms you read about always match your symptoms, regardless of what you're reading, even it's about the bubonic plague), but I was surprised that the description of burnout symptoms I eventually stumbled upon matched what I was going through. Understanding what kind of monkey's sitting on your back tends to be helpful for recovery.

Enjoy the amiga community its still alive!

The community was always the best thing about the Amiga...

[omgas]

At least the A2065 and driver works on my A1000 setup. I once tried
my Ariadne1 wanting to compare the two, but the system was then
stuck in a boot or reboot loop, I think it was right at powerup,
but it could have been after kickdisk load ofcourse.

Having used the A2065 mostly for Envoy, I am now looking forward
to (hopefully) try out a lean tcp/ip stack, crossing fingers

omgas

[billt]

And I've just crawled out of from whatever stone I was hiding under to see if there was still enough fun left in me and the Amiga community for another round of doing what I believe I do best...

I'm very happy that you are coming back again. I'm sure we all are.

[buzz]

I recently moved 3 TBytes in thirty seconds when I replaced the two drives in my NAS ;-)

How did you manage that ? Faster than any HD's i've ever heard of.

[zipper]

HD speeds are pretty nice now. I have an external E-Sata HD in my laptop and 100 MB copy goes so fast that Windows progress bar doesn't even pop up - quite a difference to my ex USB2 drive.

[buzz]

Yes, but they are not so fast as to move 3TB in 30 seconds. However I've reread and I think this is geek humour. he "moved" 3tb by moving the disks. hoho

[olsen]

How did you manage that ? Faster than any HD's i've ever heard of.

Easy: turn off NAS device, take two old drives out of the NAS device, remove old drives from their clips, put two new drives into the clips, put new drives into the NAS device. Easiest hardware upgrade I ever did. Note tongue in cheek in diagram A above ;-)

Seriously, if you want to move a lot of data quickly, pushing it down an Internet connection is not necessarily the way to go unless you have major bandwidth to spare. It can be much more cost efficient to just put it on a disk of sufficient size and move it physically yourself, or by hiring a courier service.

This is how, for example, some of the post production work was done in the "Lord of the Rings" films, in London. They put the data on an iPod and somebody carried it to where it was needed.

[nyteschayde]

Make it happen but do please release separate cpu binary builds. Thanks!

[slick]

If it was easier to use than Miami ie. offered some kind of functionality improvements I'd buy one... as it's always a struggle to find my current version of Miami or some other stack and get it working. Plus Holger has not developed Miami for ages... and seems to have stopped taking registrations as well.

So as long as the rego is reasonable... there seems no reason not to jump on it early rather than later.

Alternatively if the rego is a bit steep then I'd first evaluate it and then buy it.

:-)

[barana24]

I would purchase roadshow for 68k - ocs a500...

sorry but im not gunna read 11 pages here and on aw

but i will buy it. for 68000

[MelbourneBen]

Only just noticed this thread....count me in for definate...

[AAACHIPSET]

Maybe the makers of Natami, FPGAArcade, Minimig improvements, etc, could license it for inclusion for a reasonable fee (per hardware device), and then these classic Amiga implementations would include a TCP/IP stack out of the box.

that would be the way to go ..if natami can play a decent tennis game  ..an browse  the net what would i want a pc for ?? ..all i do is log online  browse a bit emails ..with apple podacts taking over the world windows  surely  looks like its  time  is  coming to a end ..eventually ..

[kolla]

with apple podacts taking over the world windows  surely  looks like its  time  is  coming to a end ..eventually ..

:crazy:

[jj]

Yeah a bet Microsoft is quaking in its boots.