[News] Interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion | ANN.lu |
Posted on 07-Nov-2001 20:45 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 194 comments View flat View list |
Christoph Gutjahr interviewed Hyperion about AmigaOS 4.0.
You can read the interview on amiga-news.de in English or in German.
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Posted by Graham on 08-Nov-2001 12:08 GMT | In reply to Comment 58 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion): - Theoretically, an x86 box which cannot run Windows would do the trick but
- unfortunately that would be a custom product making the whole affaire
- "expensive" again.
No, it needn't be expensive to make the machine not boot Windows.
Replace the BIOS with something else. Windows cannot boot then. As I said, put a 2MB flash ROM, put the stuff on that that you would be putting on the 2MB flash ROM on the AmigaOne, and you are off.
You could even just try and fit something into a standard 256KB BIOS flash ROM that will read from a small partition on disk (similar to how AlphaBIOS works) that contains your start-up software.
Get one of the x86 motherboard manufacturers to slightly modify an existing design to use 2MB flash ROMs (or larger :)). The problem then turns into one of writing new material for that ROM - which you are already doing for the AmigaOne. Of course, there are x86 nastys to get out of the way as well (turn to 32-bit mode, real mode, do this and that, etc, enable cache on processor, etc).
Graham |
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