@nikosidis

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I don't like to compare to original Amiga. Better to compare against Intel or AMD CPUs.

The RPi3's Cortex A53 is slower than a current entry-level Intel or AMD processor, so it is not fast, but maybe "fast enough." On the plus side, it does not do out-of-order execution, so it is not affected by Spectre.

The RPi3 is probably in the same class as the Tabor, although we won't know for certain until the A1222 is released. And by the time the A1222 is released, we may be comparing it to the RPi4!

The reason I compared the RPi to original Amiga hardware is because AROS is a re-implementation of AmigaOS, which was written for Amiga hardware.

@matthey

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Internet software is any software used on the internet including the network stack.

It's the network stack that I'm concerned about. If the system does not have memory protection, any process in the system can read IP packets intended for other processes.

@OlafS25

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new and expecially security critical software would run protected, the rest (old software) in the current way

I've been wondering about that: could memory protection be added only for apps that access the network stack? That would require updating browsers and a few other things, but everything else would continue to run as-is.

Still, it would be a lot of work; I think it's better to just use Linux, AROS hosted, and AmigaOS via emulation, since all of that is already working. The main obstacle is perception: many Amiga users today are as adverse to Linux as they were to Intel back in the day. One can't really be an Amigan without having a nefarious enemy such as Atari, or Intel, or Linux.

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