| Subject: RE: any alternatives to x86? |
Author: J.O. Aho (as6-1-7.ml.g.bonet.se)
Date: 07-06-2003 18:02
Hi,
I'm a Pegasos owner, and I can say that I'm pleaced with the preformance from my G3/600, but as you all, I had my doubts about this when I first saw the spec for the Pegasos board.
I had used a G4/400 Macinthosh a little bit and thought it to be really lagish compared to my linux machines (both runs on AMD x86). I feared that the G3 would make the Pegasos runing MorphOS to feel as lagish as MacOS9.
As an old Amigan, I did go and bought the Pegasos after chatting a little bit with Ralph and he assured that MorphOS wouldn't be slow.
When I had put together my Pegasos and for the first time booted into MorphOS, I was really surprised that things went so smooth on a G3/600. Of course MorphOS do not have as much built in (yet) as MacOS has, but anyway the impression I got was that it worked fast enough. The mc68k emulation is good too (I had noticed that already when I tried MorphOS 0.4 on my old Amiga1200 with a BlizzardPPC 602/180Mhz).
Soon the G4 cards will be released, not sure if it was 1000MHz or not. The new Pegasos2 mainboards should come in late September (if nothing happens), the price for the P2+G4 will just be a marginal more than P1+G3. I can agree that the price is high on the Pegasos, but you have to keep in mind that the number of mainboards made are still small, I really do think that if Atari people would support it, we would see a drop in prices.
I know that some have it's thoughts about Amiga and AmigaOS, which MorphOS does emulate with help of it's Abox, but it wouldn't need any rewrite of MorphOS to include a TOSbox and get Atari emulation, what lacks is enough of demand and a few skilled coders.
I know that Genesi has been talking with Atari (Infogames) about a really close co-operation, which could lead to that the Pegasos2 could be named Atari and be the platform that Atari (Infogames) would make their new games for. Sadly I don't know the outcome of the talks, but I know that not many Pegasos users do support the Atari-thought.
I personally think it would be good to join the two "enemies", as both Amigans and Atarians have been faithful and dedicated and IMHO thats needed to get a new computer platform to fight against the x86.
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