I wonder if anyone's ever suggested that they hire a stenographer to cover these events?

I'm semi-serious - I just missed Trevor's speech and now I'm going to have to wait for a week to get what was really said... And in the meantime subsist on a diet of rumour and speculation. Ah well...

Still, netbook! Excellent news.

@vox

As I understand it, OOo4Kids and OOoLight will share the same codebase but their interfaces will fork, one focusing on the educational/kids side, the other going for a more general purpose office look.

If I am correct, I expect that we'll be able to choose which one to install, as long as both interfaces are AmigaOS-friendly.

@nubechecorre

I've got another question, since Amiwest has gone and Christmas and the new year are rapidly approaching.

Will there be a Pianeta Amiga show this year? And will ANT be doing another show in the runup to Christmas like they did last year?


I suppose that's actually two questions, but nevermind.

@vox

AppliedMicro's website says that both the 440ep and the 460ex offer ~2 DMIPS per MHz. So, that's about 1466 for a Sam440ep at 733MHz and roughly 2400 for the Sam460.

This won't reflect real usage, though, because the Sam460 also has much faster RAM and much more up-to-date graphics. People with more knowledge than me have estimated that the Sam460 should be between two to four times faster than a 440 at most general use tasks.

The MIPS numbers are interesting, though. They offer a rough insight into how potential future target processors might perform under AmigaOS. PA6T you've already mentioned, but other chips like the APM801xx or the QorIQ range from Freescale are also interesting, from both a price and performance point of view.

@vox

I sincerely hope you don't intend to just post that to Hyperion. It repeats itself, insults them and includes items that frankly don't belong on a top-priority wishlist.

Cut it down to five seriously major things that they haven't just announced that they're working on, and drop the accusation of managerial incompetence. And try to word it so that you don't just annoy the developers. Remember, they are having to make optimal use of very limited resources, so they'll be prioritising certain things over others. Additional PCI card drivers and firewire just aren't going to be a priority for in-house development.

@eliyahu

Ah, I see now. That's actually good news from my point of view, as I was wondering what prompted the need for another revision. Such a process would only take up valuable time.

As regards the Southbridge rumours, the problem wasn't that they changed which one to use. From what's been said at both the VCF and AmiWest, its simply that integrating the AMD Southbridge with the Power CPU has proven to be rather complicated and has set the whole project back by some way.

@Daniel

I don't know about USB, but I do think it'll ship on an SD Card. At the VCF, Max from ACube demonstrated it booting from SD card and the suggestion was that since both the 460 and the X1000 have inaccessible internal card readers...


If you want to go the USB stick route, though, I think that is also on the agenda. UBoot supports it, not sure about the AmigaOS. Anyway, not to worry. We'll know for sure by the end of the weekend.