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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    number6
    Posts: 480 from 2008/8/10
    Quote:

    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    > I believe you misunderstood my comment. I'm referring to
    > the order in which the author listed the issues. That's all.

    I see. Thanks for clarifying.


    Please confirm (because I am using a translator) that the following info is correct.
    There was a question about # of Tabor boards produced prior:

    From AP regarding an article for AF

    Quote:

    I was in contact with Trevor about an article for the AF and they definitely did not produce "massive" boards that are now waiting for the driver to be completed. There was a production run that went completely to beta testers / developers, more boards will be produced only after completion of the AOS4 drivers.


    Courtesy AP and A1k


    Additionally, please see Trevor's blog (today):

    We are Amiga!

    Note: Extremely recent info about Tabor and ethernet

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  • »23.03.18 - 13:07
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12074 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > Please confirm (because I am using a translator) that the following info is correct.

    I confirm that the translation is correct. However, I‘m not in a position to confirm (or dispute) the correctness of the contained info.

    > There was a question about # of Tabor boards produced prior:
    > From AP regarding an article for AF [...]

    As far as I remember, the story of the 1000 produced Tabor boards was reported as being told by Trevor Dickinson at AmiWest 2015. This may have been a misreport, I don‘t know. Or there is some misunderstanding between Trevor and AP.
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    redrumloa
    Posts: 1424 from 2003/4/13
    Quote:

    Andreas_Wolf wrote:

    As far as I remember, the story of the 1000 produced Tabor boards was reported as being told by Trevor Dickinson at AmiWest 2015. This may have been a misreport, I don‘t know. Or there is some misunderstanding between Trevor an AP.


    That would be an awful big misunderstand. "We produced 5 boards for developers and beta testers" turning into "we are sitting on 1,000 boards" seems a bit of a stretch. Considering how much ridicule they got at the time, if it was inaccurate I would have expected someone from A-Eonkit to have clarified back then. That is, unless, they took over the McBill "on schedule and rockin" playbook.
  • »24.03.18 - 00:55
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  • Jim
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
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    I have no doubt 1000 P1022 cups were purchased, and it seems quite likely that a significant production run of motherboards was made (a LOT more than 5) considering the number of the people I have talked to that have one or have been offered one.

    Why WE are wasting our time discussing Tabor is beyond me. If our developers were going to support that platform they would (a) already have the boards (b) have announced is was a target...and (c) already be working on the port.

    It's not our concern.
    We have our Macs, the Pegasos, the SAM460 and the X5000.
    I wouldn't buy a Tabor board at any price, even if it was two for one.

    Personally, I want 11,2 PowerMac support, and if I can't get that I'll settle for the X5000.

    [ Edited by Jim 24.03.2018 - 14:15 ]
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »24.03.18 - 02:03
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12074 from 2003/5/22
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    > if it was inaccurate I would have expected someone from A-Eonkit
    > to have clarified back then. That is, unless, they took over the
    > McBill "on schedule and rockin" playbook.

    ...or unless they thought leaving it unclarified would somehow strengthen their position toward Hyperion.
  • »24.03.18 - 13:46
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    number6
    Posts: 480 from 2008/8/10
    Quote:

    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    > Please confirm (because I am using a translator) that the following info is correct.

    I confirm that the translation is correct. However, I‘m not in a position to confirm (or dispute) the correctness of the contained info.

    > There was a question about # of Tabor boards produced prior: From AP regarding an article for AF
    > [...]

    As far as I remember, the story of the 1000 produced Tabor boards was reported as being told by Trevor Dickinson at AmiWest 2015. This may have been a misreport, I don‘t know. Or there is some misunderstanding between Trevor and AP.


    Thanks for the reminder. Checked.

    Quote:

    It's our intention that we are building a thousand of these in the first run


    quote source at approximately 21:50

    I suppose "intention" is the keyword here.

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  • »24.03.18 - 15:11
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  • Jim
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
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    >*My* main interest in Tabor is still learning how Varisys managed to squeeze 3 SerDes lanes and 4 PCIe lanes out of the P1022‘s 6 SerDes lanes and to overcome the restrictions of the SerDes configurations predefined by Freescale/NXP.

    http://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=11137&start=758
    http://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=12151&start=39

    >To this end, I‘m eagerly awaiting the publication of the Tabor block diagram.

    >> if I can get [11,2 PowerMac support] I'll settle for the X5000

    My spelling checker.

    Hmm, yes, you have mentioned the issue regardinging the limited SerDes lanes before.
    Honestly, they just picked the wrong processor.
    And with this much time they could have corrected for that, unless....someone was foolish enough to buy 1000 P1022 cpus. ;-)
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  • »24.03.18 - 20:20
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    roschmyr
    Posts: 206 from 2003/2/20
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    Quote:

    Jim wrote:

    Personally, I want 11,2 PowerMac support, and if I can't get that I'll settle for the X5000.




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  • »26.03.18 - 11:21
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12074 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    Quote:

    It's our intention that we are building a thousand of these in the first run

    > quote source at approximately 21:50
    > I suppose "intention" is the keyword here.

    I didn't watch or listen to this presentation back then (or any other time), so thanks for rechecking. Seems like there was some (probably unintentional) misrepresentation occuring afterwards, which many (me included) fell for ...and A-Eon didn't feel the need to clarify.
  • »26.03.18 - 12:59
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    Posts: 80 from 2017/9/10
    I had X5000/20 and had x5000/40 and have a G5 Quad. im sure G5 Quad Morphos will kill the two A-EON overprized machine many times with same Morphos version and same GPU.
    by the way i will do a fast test try to boot mos 3.10 on my quad with radeonhd ... just for see if something will happen

    A comparison X5000/40 vs G5 Quad same gpu Linux


    X5000/40
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i57NZb9Q0UE

    Quad G5

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsB5xlLyZwE

    take your considerations

    [ Edited by tlosmx 27.03.2018 - 15:31 ]
  • »27.03.18 - 15:25
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  • MorphOS Developer
    zukow
    Posts: 642 from 2005/2/9
    From: Poland
    Things for release and debug (builds for testers/devs before release, tied to MAC adresses) are compiled conditionally so You can't run MorphOS on G5 pcie as support is not compiled in. If You want, i can do some test on Pmac g5 pcie with MorphOS.
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  • Jim
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
    From: Delaware, USA
    Quote:

    zukow wrote:
    Things for release and debug (builds for testers/devs before release, tied to MAC adresses) are compiled conditionally so You can't run MorphOS on G5 pcie as support is not compiled in. If You want, i can do some test on Pmac g5 pcie with MorphOS.


    That would prove useful.

    And Andreas is completely correct, I know about the tester builds.
    From what I understand its quite a bit more involved setting up an 11,2 (we are spoiled by the ease with which the boot CDs work).
    Also, with an 11,2 you would need a NIC as the onboard controller isn't supported (sound would require a board as well).
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »27.03.18 - 17:00
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    number6
    Posts: 480 from 2008/8/10
    Quote:

    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    Update:

    >> quote source at approximately 21:50

    > I didn't watch or listen to this presentation back then (or any other time),
    > so thanks for rechecking. Seems like there was some (probably unintentional)
    > misrepresentation occuring afterwards, which many (me included) fell for
    > ...and A-Eon didn't feel the need to clarify.

    Clarification by A-Eon from 2 months ago (see 'Update' section):

    https://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=42638&forum=16#813567


    So, to summarize:
    2015: Quote:

    It's our intention that we are building a thousand of these in the first run

    2018: Quote:

    matter of starting production


    I would think the only update that might mean anything here would be:
    "we have begun production", which I have yet to see.

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  • »07.08.18 - 14:14
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Spectre660
    Posts: 275 from 2015/6/30
    You might want to make sure that the onboard audio works ok under AmigaOS 4.1 before a production run as there is no other current sound option.

    [ Edited by Spectre660 07.08.2018 - 10:53 ]
  • »07.08.18 - 14:42
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  • Jim
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
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    Quote:

    Spectre660 wrote:
    You might want to make sure that the onboard audio works ok under AmigaOS 4.1 before a production run as there is no other current sound option.


    No USB sound options? Yeah, with only one expansion slot intended for a video card, lack of support for the on-board sound would then be problematic.

    Don't you have one of the development boards?
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »07.08.18 - 15:17
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    redrumloa
    Posts: 1424 from 2003/4/13
    I have once again predicted the future.

    This board won't be for sale with a working OS4.1 port until at least 2018. Do you really expect people to pretend like a ~500Euro rpi level board in 2018 will be a good idea?
    03.11.15 - 13:21


    [ Edited by redrumloa 07.08.2018 - 10:37 ]
  • »07.08.18 - 15:37
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    redrumloa
    Posts: 1424 from 2003/4/13
    Quote:

    Jim wrote:
    Quote:

    Spectre660 wrote:
    You might want to make sure that the onboard audio works ok under AmigaOS 4.1 before a production run as there is no other current sound option.


    No USB sound options? Yeah, with only one expansion slot intended for a video card, lack of support for the on-board sound would then be problematic.

    Don't you have one of the development boards?


    Yes.
  • »07.08.18 - 16:15
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Spectre660
    Posts: 275 from 2015/6/30
    It died just before the AOS 4.1 beta test began.
    Sam460ex also started giving problems around the same time so I opted to get an x5000 instead of replacing the Tabor at that time as I needed at least 1 fully working AmigaOS 4.1 System.
    Don't currently have time for more than 2 working AmigaOS 4.1 machines at a time .
    As the Sam460ex's is working ok now I have my maximum (Problem was the power supply.Tests ok and works ok with a a pc but not the Sam460ex).

    Quote:

    Jim wrote:
    Quote:

    Spectre660 wrote:
    You might want to make sure that the onboard audio works ok under AmigaOS 4.1 before a production run as there is no other current sound option.


    No USB sound options? Yeah, with only one expansion slot intended for a video card, lack of support for the on-board sound would then be problematic.

    Don't you have one of the development boards?
  • »07.08.18 - 16:18
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12074 from 2003/5/22
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    > No USB sound options?

    OS4 lacks support for isochronous USB transfers.
  • »07.08.18 - 16:31
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    Kronos
    Posts: 2236 from 2003/2/24
    Quote:

    redrumloa wrote:
    I have once again predicted the future.

    This board won't be for sale with a working OS4.1 port until at least 2018. Do you really expect people to pretend like a ~500Euro rpi level board in 2018 will be a good idea?
    03.11.15 - 13:21



    Want a t-shirt for that? ;)
  • »07.08.18 - 16:33
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    redrumloa
    Posts: 1424 from 2003/4/13
    Quote:

    Kronos wrote:
    Quote:

    redrumloa wrote:
    I have once again predicted the future.

    This board won't be for sale with a working OS4.1 port until at least 2018. Do you really expect people to pretend like a ~500Euro rpi level board in 2018 will be a good idea?
    03.11.15 - 13:21



    Want a t-shirt for that? ;)


    Yes!! :-D
  • »07.08.18 - 17:02
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    Kronos
    Posts: 2236 from 2003/2/24
    That‘ll 50$ paid in advance onto the Bermudan account of Vaduz_try_to_sue_us Limited
  • »07.08.18 - 18:15
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