@katos1
Yes, i coincide with you, that idea is better than mine
We need a response of BBRV about this...

Has anybody heard about features for MOS 1.5?

I heard that the Beta has 3D Drivers for Radeon 7xxx.
Mabe somebody heard of firewire?

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FW isn't that much more advanced compared to usb 2.0. Plus usb 2.0 is cheaper and available. Firewie is nice but an expensive technique which does not offer that advantages which it's more cost could imply.
It's more like usb being ethernet and FW token ring. Technically token ring was nice, but in the end ethernet did the race.

But sure having fw is better than not having it. developers haven't forgotten it, but it's not higest priority.

As for the Pro's for Firewire:
Firewire has lower CPU usage i think, because
the firewire controller handles more than its USB counterpart.
A feature of Firewire is direct link from device to device.
Thats why Intel hates it, you need no PC as Digital HUB.

And for reasons of fairness we should speed wise
compare USB 2.0 to IEEE1394B aka Firewire 800.
Firewire is faster here

It's more expensive that's true. But a Peg G4 1GHz
is more expensive as an PIII 1 GHz too.

Greetz

Why core Mos developes and Pegasos HW engeneer are so close about MOs and Pegasos low level specification ...
Because, and this is a bit depressing, this low level knowledge of some people can lead to a direct porting under AmigaOne/aos4 or some parts of the Marvell chipset are NDA and can be developed only by Bplan guyz (1gbit ethernet) ... see the OpenBsd story.
Today we have to hope that Mos core developers are strong and stable to support us (I AM A ball destroyer on #morphos) and to include the cutted part of Mos(TcpIp stack, firewire support, Radeon 3d support that are planned in the 1.5 version ... the 1gigabit ethernet support is a different matter).
Anyway I ws impressed: impressed by my Pegasos2 G3 speed and stability with Pagestream and Imagefx (that are not native). By the light light weight of MOS and the good opportunities that Linux and MacOnLinux especially can give to this machine.
We need hope, my friend. In the last 2 years Ralph, Frank, David, Emmanuele, Martin and all new "busy guyz" did a really good job ... something that create a new hope in ourselves.
Let's hope

@paochi,

I agree that the MOS Development team has done a good job. I must also add this bit of History:

When the Amiga was first released in 1985 some of the early developers wrote software that made direct hits at the hardware/Rom while getting around the software. When new Roms came out 1.2, 1.3, the old software was broken!! This upset many of the developers which made claims that Amiga/commodore were unprofessional. The truth of the matter was the the Amiga was in its early stage of Development, many design changes were made, in an evolutionary way, that made the Amiga more successfull in the future.

Personally, If I were Genesi, I would only want people to write apps that make function calls to the API, this would stop software from becoming totally useless when low-level changes have to be made.

Just my opinion,

Katos

Absolutely Katos
It was exactly what happened.