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The Sam460ex board

ACube Systems unveiled their next mainboard: the Sam460ex.

The board is the third product in the 4×0 series after the Sam440ep and the Sam440ep-flex. Sporting the AMCC 460ex SoC processor it features modern technologies like PCI-Express, Gigabit ethernet, USB 2.0. A full list of features has been published on the above link.

Debian Linux already runs on the pre-production board (screenshots here, here, here, here and here). While AmigaOS 4.1 support has not been officially announced so far, it’s very likely that work is already in progress on a port for this board.

ACube Systems will attend the Amiga 25th Anniversary Vintage Computer Fair in London and chances are high that we will see a first version of AmigaOS 4.1 running on the Sam460ex.

At the same event A-EON technologies will demonstrate, for the first time, the new High End Amiga One X1000 running AmigaOS 4.1.

June 2010 will probably be remembered in the (tormented) History of the Amiga Platform.

Today, for all the Amiga community, is a great day.ACube Systems announced the availability of the AmigaOS 4.0 for every old Amiga equipped with PowerPC expansion cards (Amiga 1200, 3000 e 4000 models). You can read the press release here.More info here and here.Have fun!

David Shannon Morse was one of the co-founder of Hi-Toro, the company behind the Amiga (before Commodore stepped in). Together with Jay Miner, Carl Sassenrath and others, he brought to us one of the most advanced computer of all times.

He passed away at the beginning of this month at the age of 64. He will be missed by all the Amiga community.

Thanks Dave.

Some articles about him:

Italian Wikipedia article (still under construction)

Some words about him from Carl Sassenrath

News about his death on AmigaWorld forum

News from Punto informatico (the photo at the top of this post was taken from this article)