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Posted on 25-May-2002 17:32 GMT by petros1815 | 122 comments View flat View list |
The AmigaOne was presented in Leeuwarden today. Unfortunately, only openfirmware bios was shown. Photos of the presentation at http://www.amigascene.nl/nieuws/nieuws.htm .
At around 15.00 Computer City brought the AmigaOne motherboard. It is the first sample of the 1.0a board. Because the motherboard was different from the one that Eyetech had, it was not possible to use the Linux from the old board. Because there was no more time for a new installation, we had to do only with the openfirmware bios. There are installed a IBM processor (without cooling!), 128MB, Soundblaster soundcard and a ATi Radeon 7500 AGP.
It now waits for OS4.
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Comment 1 | Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | | 25-May-2002 15:47 GMT |
Comment 2 | Arno | | 25-May-2002 15:51 GMT |
Comment 3 | anonymous coder | | 25-May-2002 16:01 GMT |
Comment 4 | Anonymous | | 25-May-2002 16:19 GMT |
Comment 5 | Amifan | | 25-May-2002 16:22 GMT |
Comment 6 | Ole-Egil Hvitmyren | | 25-May-2002 17:01 GMT |
Comment 7 | Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | | 25-May-2002 18:03 GMT |
Comment 8 | Kronos | | 25-May-2002 18:07 GMT |
Comment 9 | Ole-Egil Hvitmyren | | 25-May-2002 18:45 GMT |
Comment 10 | Roald Oosterhoff | | 25-May-2002 20:26 GMT |
Comment 11 | cOrpse | | 25-May-2002 20:42 GMT |
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Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 25-May-2002 21:19 GMT | In reply to Comment 9 (Ole-Egil Hvitmyren): I remember the 500MHz-for-dev-board number pretty distinctly, but lost the 'regular' number in the haze of newsposters mistaking 750CXe for 750MHz. :)
Kronos: Interesting if that's true... and if it is, can you point to the mailing list posts/news articles/press-releases that would presumably explain the whole process again?
Ole: As far as I could tell from the last 'official clarification' news here (I can't remember if it was still through Ben Hermans, or if it was Alan Redhouse's words directly?), there's supposed to be a good ol' BIOS ROM, probably an OpenFirmware with a nicely Kickstart-like UI added on, plus a physically seperate 'dongle'/license-management ROM. (The BIOS/OF is flashable for maintenance purposes; the dongle ROM isn't for obvious reasons.)
Rumor and something that could be mistaken for common sense would suggest that the 'mystery socket' (on this particular revision, mystery solder-pads for a socket) near the CPU is for the dongle ROM, which would probably have to be a fairly speedy/speedily-attached device to avoid hampering the system... or which might just be positioned there for the sake of reducing attacks. (There's probably something to be said about L1/L2 caches here, but I'm too lazy to figure out what.)
Of course, I could have it all wrong. |
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