Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2795 from 2006/3/21
From: Northern Calif...
Quote:Andreas_Wolf wrote:
I don't think this is about PCIe at all. That's what
geit said about the helpful similarities between the Sam460 and the X5000:
"
This is what I was told about the reasons the x1000 was off the list, as it is completly different."
The X1000 does have PCIe, doesn't it? Besides, MorphOS has already been shown on PCIe-based iMac G5 about
6 years ago (so
way before work on Sam460 support started).
The X1000 never made sense to port MorphOS to (although it pains me to say that, and I would love to be able to run MorphOS on my X1000), after the announcement that the PA6T CPU's were to be discontinued, and because of the cost of each board/system (even though the X5000 isn't exactly cheap, it is slightly less than the X1000 was). Personally, even with as much as I like Trevor and admire his dedication to this community, I never quite understood why he went forward with the X5000 boards, knowing that the endeavor would not be profitable, even if it was less of a loss per unit, than the X1000 was. So, even though the SAM460's PCIe slot was not the primary, or only reason for porting MorphOS to the SAM460, it surely was an advantage in moving forward toward more modern hardware.
[ Edited by amigadave 15.12.2016 - 14:14 ]MorphOS - The best Next Gen Amiga choice.
