OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/22096/Talks_of_RISC_OS_Porting_to_ARM_Cortex-A8 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 16:03:56 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Oh that's it.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?381815 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381815 I'm defiantly getting one!

Shame they're no MorphOS, but RISCOS? Yes please! Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AmigaRobbo) Comments RE: Oh that's it.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?381817 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381817 sweet. now if only morphos would port to arm too, then it would be my alternative os dream machine. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poundsmack) Comments RE: Oh that's it.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?381827 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381827 Has it been confirmed that MorphOS isn't porting to the new EFIKA? If so, its a shame. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kira) Comments N900 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381829 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381829 Cortex-A8 processor, 3D graphics hardware, 512M RAM, wifi

Sounds like the upcoming Nokia N900 hardware. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yanik) Comments RE[2]: Oh that's it.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?381831 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381831 Unlikely as MorphOS is PPC based.

AROS is very likely to be ported. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AmigaRobbo) Comments RE: N900 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381836 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381836 That's because it uses the same hardware. A lot of other devices use it too like the iPhone 3GS and the upcoming Pandora handheld. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Narishma) Comments RE: N900 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381837 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381837
Cortex-A8 processor, 3D graphics hardware, 512M RAM, wifi

Sounds like the upcoming Nokia N900 hardware.


Saying a device with Cortex-A8 processor, 3D graphics hardware, 512M RAM, wifi, is like saying a car with an internal combustion engine, wheels and windows.

Cortex-A8 is licensed by a lot of companies.

Edit: There are more ARM hardware implementations than Intel's x84. Very little of those can be called "the same hardware" Edited 2009-09-01 20:23 UTC Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JAlexoid) Comments RE[2]: N900 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381840 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381840
That's because it uses the same hardware. A lot of other devices use it too like the iPhone 3GS and the upcoming Pandora handheld.


Not to mention the Palm pre... Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (umccullough) Comments startup time and battery life http://www.osnews.com/thread?381851 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381851 i would love a netbook based on RiscOS and ARM.

batter life - 3 days?
power on to desktop - 1 second.. not far from the RiscOS Archimedes computers where the OS was in ROM. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (project_2501) Comments Popular http://www.osnews.com/thread?381853 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381853 "RISC OS is really popular in the UK"

True in 1989 (by virtue of Acorn's privileged status in education), much less true in 1999 (by virtue of Acorn's demise), hardly true at all in 2009. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TheBadger) Comments RE[2]: N900 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381896 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381896 Yeah, I noticed that too. And it sounds like the hardest part of a port is not the ARMv7 instruction set's requirements, but rather driving the rest of the SoC, and that's completely different in the Freescale chip, from the TI chip they've been using. Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bhtooefr) Comments RE: startup time and battery life http://www.osnews.com/thread?381917 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381917
power on to desktop - 1 second.. not far from the RiscOS Archimedes computers where the OS was in ROM.


No. Wrong. The A7000 (Last Acorn machine I used, RISCOS 3.6) takes about 40 - 50 seconds to boot. Whilst the *basic* OS is in ROM, it loads much of the rest of the OS from Hard disc. Even the A3000, which was entirely ROM based and ran RISCOS 2.0 still took around 10 seconds. Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (memson) Comments RE: Popular http://www.osnews.com/thread?381918 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381918
"RISC OS is really popular in the UK"

True in 1989 (by virtue of Acorn's privileged status in education), much less true in 1999 (by virtue of Acorn's demise), hardly true at all in 2009.


Agreed. You'd be hard pressed to find more than a handful of Acorn users in any city. They are thin on the ground and mostly using second user systems that schools threw out or overly expensive (now discontinued) Iyonix. Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (memson) Comments RE[2]: startup time and battery life http://www.osnews.com/thread?381922 http://www.osnews.com/thread?381922 Hmmm. Some 10 years ago I knew someone with a RiscPC, not quite sure of the model but I think it had a StrongARM CPU. As I remember it, the thing would indeed boot in a few seconds. I must admit that I never worked closely enough with the machine to remember if it would continue to load stuff in the background (like Windows does since XP). But I am quite sure it was *usable* after only a second of 3 to 5.

Another thing I clearly remember is that the owner would often just reboot instead of closing all his open applications. It was faster and less hassle than closing all apps manually ;) Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (timl) Comments