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Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
Quote:amigadave wrote:
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Jim wrote:
Tabor isn't likely to be available until 2017.
And once available, A-eon isn't likely to introduce something that is too close to that spec or price.
And a T2 board would eat up X5000 market space.
My guess is that we have at least two years or more before A-eon will move to use either CPU.
What facts are you basing your assumptions of for such a late release date for the Tabor?
It is almost 2016 already, and history shows (back when the collective competence within the OS4 team for writing drivers and low level porting stuff might have been bigger) that it use to take at least one to two years to introduce support for new HW in OS4. The Tabor is using a SoC with AFAIK on-chip controllers that OS4 has no previous support for, so there are no or little re-use of code benefits on the driver side. The competence for this kind of stuff that exists within the OS4 team is busy with the X5000 port, the Tabor port hasn't even started yet (this is public knowledge directly from the source). And when it comes to Tabor, due to its FPU madness, it's not even a matter of a straight port, you would have to incorporate a rather tricky FPU emulation in the OS (tricky at least if you want it to be HW accellerated). The Xorro/Xena of the X1000/X5000 might have been stupid, but it's almost like you wish for that kind of stupidity instead of the SPE-FPU stupidity. At least the Xorro/Xena can be ignored (like the OS4 team has opted to do).
2016 is almost here, and a year has only 365 days. A 2017 estimate is totally realistc IMHO. Could very well end up being 2018.
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