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Posted on 02-Nov-2002 18:36 GMT by Ian Stedman58 comments
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Just put some pictures of the World of Amiga show online at http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/woase/woase2002.htm Not put a show report yet but I have added comment text to each picture.

The show was good from my point of view, got a few bargains and got to play with a few Pegasos systems. All of the companies present were doing good trade and had good offers

Apparently AmigaOS 4 is 90% done, just the last few bits to do. The last 10% is always the tricky part. Ben Hermann's who presented had a sense of humour with a few jokes about Amiga user complaints! ;)

Some techie stuff on OS4 while I remember, exec re-written in C taking 42000 lines of code? Context switching times of 4 microseconds on AmigaOne and 40 microseconds on Blizzard PPC. Compare this to 400 microseconds or more for OS X. Apparently gives better real time performance than QNX momentics!

Amiga OS 4 has new TCP/IP stack, support for ReiserFS and the old FFS. USB built in. Hardware abstraction layer working well. HDToolbox replacement with media support. 68K emulation on a 600 MHZ G3 gives equivalent performance to a 68060@50MHz.

Unfortunately there was no demo of Amiga OS 4.

Thendic came well prepared with many Pegasos systems running MorphOS, MacOnLinux and SuSE Linux. I was impressed with these systems.

Eyetech had an AmigaOne in an ATX case, a motherboard and a system sort of running. I say sort of as I never saw anything more than a boot console.

That is all I can remember at the moment. Enjoy the pictures. Overall the show was enjoyable.

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Posted by LAD-knows-his-stuff on 02-Nov-2002 20:14 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Don Cox):
The performance numbers are a repeat of the embarassing stuff Ben was spewing at the other of the year, and also reminiscent of his claims for the VM.
A 4us context switch is ordinary, both Linux and Windows can beat that for the kind of toy benchmark I see running in these screenshots. QNX is about 10 times as fast. The reason you see much larger numbers (in the order of milliseconds) thrown around is because people are interested in /worst case latency/ for their full blown applications, the audio and video software that you're talking about.
For a hard disk recorder type of app the problem isn't "How quickly on average will my app be woken up?" but instead "Can I be sure that my app will ALWAYS be woken in time to fill/empty the buffers?". That's why e.g. a stock Red Hat Linux kernel just won't do for pro audio recording. Red Hat could publish numbers just like Ben's [only smaller] and it would mean nothing.
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