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I know this is going to sound whiney but what really annoys me is checkable items that use a square-root symbol for a check. Please, for the love of Pete, get rid of that awful square-root and use a real symbol. It makes the preferences look like a throwback to some hokey DOS character application.

Are there any 'fatal' flaws in ReAction? Someone mentioned something in a MUI/ReAction flamefest about application-level UI threading possibly blocking the whole system if it fails? Is this true? If so that _is_ bad. Fixable?

And finally, we need a standard UI templating system, probably XML-based. Something along the lines of what was being previewed in Jamie's AVD suite, but an OS standard that any IDE can generate.

@Olrick

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@Spirantho

Possible multi-core support was hinted at for an OS 4.2-ish timeframe. Heard it on the Amiwest audio feed.

Of all the major upgrades being whined at for OS4 (memory protection, resource tracking, MP support) I am guessing MP support is the "easiest" to do.

Announced on Friday...
AppliedMicro Introduces Multi-core System-on-Chip For Next Generation Converged Applications

(Snipped from article...)

The hardware features of the APM 83290 SoC include dual Titan cores, each with a floating point unit, 512KB of shared L2 Cache memory with ECC support, full hardware memory and I/O coherency, 64-bit DDR2 SDRAM interface, security acceleration for IPSec, SSL, Kasumi, SNOW3G and public-key protocols. Other features include a classification engine, multi-channel DMA engine, and high speed interfaces for Gigabit Ethernet ports, IEEE1588v2 support, PCI Express? v2.0, Serial RapidIO?, USB and SATA.
Availability
Applied Micro's APM 83290 is available now in sample quantities with <b>production quantities expected in Q1 2010</b>.


So there you go, another nice candidate processor for OS4. Let's hope it supports at least dual SATA and at least 8x PCI-Express.

Maybe this has something to do with Hyperion's secret project and Acube's silence lately?
Did the butler do it with the candlestick holder?

@tldaley

I have a Lexmark C534DN. Great printer. I believe most of the Lexmark lasers (except possibly very low-end) support Postscript.

Unfortunately, I do not have an OS4.1 system to test it with.

If you are interested someone could always print the postscript to a file and send it to me. I could send it to the printer and look at the result. Just be sure to set it up for 8.5x11 paper size.

@Daz
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Check out nubechecorre's photo gallery - there is a photo of the USB setup window. It clearly shows an ehci device at the top.

@broadblues

Exactly right.

Please guys, no "magic numbers" in your code.

I deal with older code where this was common (argh!) practice and it is a royal PITA to upgrade. It is very fragile and causes no end of grief.

This sounds like AMCC's "Pismo" reference design based on the 460EX.

Have a look here: http://www.appliedmicro.com/Embedded/ ... MCC_NAS_Product_Brief.pdf

The reference design is missing any expansion capability. However the 460EX does have x4 and x1 PCI- Express support and a PCI 32bit/66mhz bus.

Should be interesting to see how far Acube takes the design.

@Hans

Well, with the right chips, such as the PEX8648, you can make PCI-Express look like a "bus". It's a big honking switch I am considering for a different project.

And nice work on getting the 4350 running. What a frustration that must have been! But rewarding in the end. Kind of like win32 programming.

@Mikey_C

Great broadcast - thanks!

@Hans

151 is a pretty good response rate!

Slightly off-topic, but a recent posting about Windows 7 graphic memory handling was recently on Tom's Hardware...

Reference: Windows 7 Way Smarter with Graphics RAM

The model has been changed in Windows 7 to only hold the window images in graphic card memory. Apparently the penalty of copying back to regular memory wasn't that high.

Comments as it may relate to your P96 work? Does the P96 implementation hold 2 copies of the window image?



Thanks

@tonyw

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LOL!!

@BillE

LOL

@Rigo

Hey nice work so far - I cruised the docs.

Do you have plans for a UI painter? I really liked where Jamie was going with AVD (XML-driven, created at runtime, etc...).

@Elwood

Very nice report. Thanks for writing it up.

This is encouraging to see. The response you saw to your presentation makes it all worthwhile.


Cheers!

@tonyw

The computer says "no".

Very cool.

Sounds like a job for the OS 4.1 compositing engine.

To recap my understanding, you would:

a) Create a "base" icon image in either a structured format such as SVG or a large bitmap (i.e. 48x48)

b) Apply any overlays such as link/shortcut indicators

c) Apply any effects such as "glow"

d) Apply any final overlays such as the "bubble"

e) Scale to final size

@LyleHaze

Oh well. Maybe their follow-on product can use a more standard memory module form-factor.

Cheers!

Greg


(looking forward to the hardware upgrade treadmill)

@Hans

Thanks. I must have missed that post.

I can wait a few months. Hopefully the $CAD comes up somewhat against the Euro by then. At the moment 330EUR works out to roughly $500 CAD.

Still expensive but getting better. I wonder how much ACube could knock off by not shipping the memory module. It's dirt-cheap here.

Has there been any indication from ACube on an expected ship date for these boards?


Thanks