| [Events] OS4! In the UK, sooner than you thought! | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 03-Nov-2003 15:58 GMT by Mikey C | 23 comments
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SEAL & ANT come together to publicly demonstrate OS4 in less than 13 days time!
South Essex Amiga Link are pleased to announce that it will be demonstrating AmigaOS4 running on an AmigaOne at it's next group meeting. The meeting will be held on Friday Nov 14th, between 7pm to 11pm, In Basildon, Essex.
On Sunday 16th November SEAL will once more demonstrate AmigaOS4 running on an AmigaOne machine, by travelling to the Amiga North Thames group meeting, being held in Enfield, NE London, between the hours of 1pm to 5pm.
See it, touch it and watch OS4 running natively on an Amiga! Everyone is
welcome, admittance is free.
For venue directions please see:
SEAL: http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk
ANT: http://www.amiganorththames.co.uk
Please note, this is not a show, there will be no dealers, no speakers,etc.
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| OS4! In the UK, sooner than you thought! : Comment 14 of 23 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Anonymous on 04-Nov-2003 19:47 GMT | In reply to Comment 11 (Alan L Buxey):
Alan writes
'the chips happen to be faster because of the ongoing MHz drive...theres
nothign inherently faster about 64bit chips for general applications. '
32-bit Athlon XP is 5-10% slower then the Athlon 64 running 32-bit applications at the same Mhz. Thus, characterizing by Mhz isn't quite correct as a larger L2 Cache, a 6.4GB/s bus structure, and a better branch prediction algorithm make the Athlon 64 faster then the Athlon XP at the same Mhz. Accordingly on the Mhz drive the Athlon 64 has a longer integer pipeline which means it will be able to scale to faster Mhz then the Athlon XP.
As for 'nothign inherently faster about 64bit chips for general applications. ' That is true depending on what you define as a general application. 64-bit has the ability to handle more memory and does faster FPU processing. Handling more memory means that those general applications which are utilizing Virtual Memory can be improved by moving to 64-bit and allowing more physical memory to be installed. 64-bit FPU is good for 3D gaming as higher quality graphics can be used and handled at higher frame rates compared to 32-bit. But, if your general application is word processing the 64-bit user will not see any real advantage.
The change from 32bits to 64bits is a bigger step then the upgrade from 16bits to 32bits.
Alan also wrote:
'64bit CPU's can access vastly more memory and do certain mathematical operations in just one bite. for Joe Public, the money is better off spent
on a decent gfx card and ergonomic kit (monitor, kb/mouse, decent chair/desk etc)'
I'd agree with you Joe Public is about running Office applications a a couple of games. A Pentium II 300Mhz is more then adequate for most users running MS Word. I'd even disagree with a decent gfx card. Any current graphic card has more then adequate 2D processing for an Office, Joe Public, application. The people who need 64-bit are the heavy gamers and heavy multimedia processing in the consumer market with databases being the consideration in the business market.
What processes will improve in 64-bit? TV/Video processing: Think of a 64-bit Amiga doing a Video Toaster type of application. WOW give me one now! Speech Recognition software. Multimedia processing -- today this is handled with specialized DSP's. If you can eliminate the specialized DSP you may be able to reduce the cost and complexity. 3-D modeling will be improved. Internet Movie Streaming. Here's a good example: Adobe released a G5 64-bit plugin for Photoshop and claims it provides double performance gains on image processing over the 32-bit version. If you read through the list of applications improved by 64-bit they strike at something.... THIS IS AMIGA TERRORITY! G5 AMIGA NOW! |
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