[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 Graham on 27-May-2002 13:29 GMT | In reply to Comment 93 (GUI Freak): Microsoft never wrote the BIOS, and most people never enter the BIOS. The BIOS is not Windows (!?). It is a hardware configuration utility that sets registers in the chipset and detects hardware for booting, etc. PC BIOSes also include legacy I/O routines, because once in the distant past, DOS relied upon code in the BIOS to run. Those routines are still handy for people writing alternative operating systems, or boot loaders, or whatever!
It is there for people that want to tweak - does what it looks like matter?
Honestly?
OpenFirmware is more powerful and flexible than the old PC BIOS. As Macs use OpenFirmware, and can boot off of any attached media, I think it is safe to assume that the AmigaOne will be able to boot off of any attached media. Macs don't show any information at all until the computer is booting MacOS. I imagine that the AmigaOne will be the same. You are not forced to enter the Firmware. The Firmware does not exist forever on screen. It is not providing any OS functionality. It just gets the machine going happily. It is an advanced modern version of the A1000 "boot kickstart from floppy" :)
Anyone that bases their computer buying decisions based purely upon the look of the firmware is an idiot. |
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