[News] The AmigaOne in Leeuwarden (photos) | ANN.lu |
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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Posted by Aram Iskenderian on 26-May-2002 21:32 GMT | In reply to Comment 17 (Anonymous): Anonymous (Wrote:
>>>Macs dont have a BIOS. Amigas dont have a BIOS.
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>>C'mon, every personal computer has a BIOS, even Macs and Amigas. Havent you >>ever held down both mouse buttons when you turned on your Amiga?
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>Well, I just checked my Mac, and nope, definitely no BIOS there. How do I >access it ?
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>And the early startup screen in kickstart 3 (it wasnt in earlier versions) >isnt a BIOS.
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Are you sure that you understand technology?
EVERY computer has a BIOS, it could be named differently, work differently, but there has to be something that controlls the motherboard and prephirals before your favourite Operating System boots.
And you are wrong when it coems to the Mac.
Restart your Mac, after the startup sound, press and hold the key
combination Command-Option-O-F.
Now tell me what you see.
As for the Amiga, Kickstart works as a BIOS, one way or another.
Your computer will not operate magically on its own when there is no OS. |
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