@billt: yup, my wrong, i have been influenced by a datasheet i found, ( http://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf/Datasheet-026/DSA00456868.pdf ) and compared to the battery next to it, i thought it was wide enough...

@KimmoK Quote:

I think any legacy stuff is not worth it on a board that aims for the future. When we get more CPU power, we have no difficulties handling legacy stuff in SW.

You could well be right. I would just like to (slightly mis-) quote Rigo from May 2009:
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As each OS revision has been released more and more work has gone into "improving" the system as a whole. Sometimes this means that some OS3 compatibilty has been sacrificed to ensure that OS4 moves forward. As there are two schools of thought, my advice is: 1) If you want classic support, stick to your antiquated hardware running a dated OS. 2) If you want to ride the bus into AmigaOS' future, then you have to pay the fare. This decision ideally should be made when embarking on contemplating buying OS4 to start with. It is an evolution of the old OS3 system, and lots of software written for that old system made use of undocumented features that were never guaranteed to work in the future (ie: Now). There have already been lots of instances where hacks have been included to ensure that older software ran on the new system, but this has to stop. Some classic software was classed as "a must have" in order to further the OS, but most old software that relies on these features will not continue to work as these "features" are removed from the system. So, first and foremost, decide what you want from your AmigaOS4 system: A system that is compatible with older software? Go with MorphOS (which makes big bones about its legacy compatibility), or do you want an AmigaOS system that is prepared to look forward into the future and prepare itself for what lies ahead? As each release of AmigaOS come out, it will undoubtedly include less and less cludges for this old software to work, that is the price of moving the system forward. So those that need 25 year old software to work are better off looking to another system, or be prepared to use E-UAE on AmigaOS to gain that compatibilty.

(emphasis added by me)

I think 64-bit, SMP & memory protection are all quite possible with such a mindset. Particularly since Rogue/etc has discussed in past how they planned to provide OS4.x wrapper onto new OS4 with radically revised API. (Although I should point out that they were clear that details had not yet been worked-out at the point, so who knows what we will actually be getting?)

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