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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 6-Oct-2016 20:03:20
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Yeah, like I need someone who isn't in the market encouraging the manufacturer to cancel the model I want to buy. "Humble"? Like Donald Trump maybe.
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 6-Oct-2016 20:14:11
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And what is will bring to SMP enabled OS' is clearly worth it. |
Like what?
At these prices, the best you can expect is a handful of adopters for even the entry level model - making any sort of software development that will take advantage of SMP impractical.
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 6-Oct-2016 21:35:00
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Both X1000 and A1222 have dual core CPU. |
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 6-Oct-2016 21:53:37
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They sold all the X1000s and that was more expensive. |
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 6-Oct-2016 23:49:21
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Which will increase the user base from negligible to marginal.
I understand the capability SMP support brings, but I'm genuinely wondering which applications will be developed to take advantage of it. |
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 7-Oct-2016 0:54:45
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AND, the P5020 based X5000 is a dual core. So, the P5040 based version will have twice as many cores (as all other recent AmigaOnes) and provide about twice the performance under Linux (which I expect most users to use as an alternate to OS4 - at least part of the time).
The performance increase in non-Amiga OS', AND the fact that the P5010 isn't that much less expensive (than the P5020 or P5040) makes your argument somewhat pointless. _________________ Amiga! "Our appeal has become more selective" |
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 7-Oct-2016 15:56:17
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making any sort of software development that will take advantage of SMP impractical. |
X1000 adopters were in many cases remaining software developers, do you think they wouldn´t use both CPU cores, if possible?
New applications aside, even current software can (in theory) take advantage of "SMP": eg. you can run office software on one core and webbrowser on the other. |
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 7-Oct-2016 19:34:05
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 7-Oct-2016 19:53:57
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 7-Oct-2016 20:01:21
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Ah nice, I'm not a member so I can't see who it is though! |
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 7-Oct-2016 20:57:42
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Ah, OK. His username is Paul DS and he's got a 1995 Mondeo if that helps. Last year a few club members attended the 30th Ford Fair show but I had to leave early to attend the Amiga 30th.
To be honest Mex, I was suprised when Rich told me you went to the Amiga 30th anniversary event in Peterborough (i knew you told us Amiga whilst on the stand but i didnt think i heard you right lol). Yeah I wanted to go to that and was even invited by Dan Wood. Bet it was good! |
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 7-Oct-2016 22:59:30
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There's also an interview with Trevor on today's Retro Hour podcast, with some BIG X5000 news :) |
For me, the best news is Tabor booting to Workbench and expected release in 2017. It will be a close race, but I may be able to win my little bet. |
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 7-Oct-2016 23:33:10
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The performance increase in non-Amiga OS', AND the fact that the P5010 isn't that much less expensive (than the P5020 or P5040) makes your argument somewhat pointless. |
Huh? I haven't made any claims about performance.
I'm asking if having multiple cores and SMP will result in any native software support. |
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 8-Oct-2016 0:50:28
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...I may be able to win my little bet. |
I had almost forgotten about that. We'll see... _________________ Amiga! "Our appeal has become more selective" |
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Re: Video - Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Posted on 8-Oct-2016 0:54:44
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Hey, you were promised it weren't you? Or is OS4.2 the myth I think it is?
And its already been pointed out to you that nothing prevents the use of more than one core now in with an ASMP approach.
Again, I don't care what YOU want, I only care about what I want to buy. So unless you're in the market for a system, why don't you STFU?
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