Star Power Design Details From ACK Software Controls, Amiga
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th May 2007 21:03 UTC
Amiga & AROS ACK Controls has released the specifications of the upcoming high-end Amiga system. As already known, it will use the P.A. Semi PWRficient PA6T-1682M dual core 64 bit CPUs clocked at 2GHz, the ATX form factor, PCI Express slots, and will have a retail price of USD 1498. The machine will supposedly be available this summer.
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SamuraiCrow
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2005-11-19

That was going to be my question, do these chips have a 32bit mode? If so, a similar situation existed with RISC OS workstations: they required a 26 bit program counter register. All of the true 32 bit ARM chips supported a 26 bit PC fallback mode upto and including the Strong ARM.

Quite honestly, if the other parts of this project work out, is not running in 64 bit mode really going to be a big setback for the Amiga?


I think that after http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6955 (the previous 20 questions interview with Bill McEwen) Amiga, Inc. is planning on releasing AmigaOS 5 and, as planned in advance, they are going to try to release AmigaOS 4 in sandbox mode (hence the PowerPC hardware).

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