Sam460ex
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Sam460ex is a line of modular motherboard
s produced by the Italian company ACube Systems Srl
. The machine was released in October 2010 and can run AmigaOS 4
or Debian GNU/Linux.
The Sam460ex made its debut at the Vintage Computer Festival at Bletchley Park
in the UK on the 19th June 2010, where it was demonstrated to the public running AmigaOS 4.1 along with the Timberwolf web browser, a port of the Mozilla Firefox
for the AmigaOS 4. Its hardware features were also showcased, with its SIM card slot and aerial, its ability to boot AmigaOS from SD card.
The SATA2 port and the PCI-e 1x slot are mutually exclusive, only one of them can be used at a time.
Motherboard
In personal computers, a motherboard is the central printed circuit board in many modern computers and holds many of the crucial components of the system, providing connectors for other peripherals. The motherboard is sometimes alternatively known as the mainboard, system board, or, on Apple...
s produced by the Italian company ACube Systems Srl
ACube Systems Srl
ACube Systems Srl is a company that started in January 2007 from the synergy of the Italian companies Alternative Holding Group Srl, Soft3 and Virtual Works....
. The machine was released in October 2010 and can run AmigaOS 4
AmigaOS 4
AmigaOS 4, , is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. It is mainly based on AmigaOS 3.1 source code, and partially on version 3.9 developed by Haage & Partner...
or Debian GNU/Linux.
The Sam460ex made its debut at the Vintage Computer Festival at Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England, which currently houses the National Museum of Computing...
in the UK on the 19th June 2010, where it was demonstrated to the public running AmigaOS 4.1 along with the Timberwolf web browser, a port of the Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...
for the AmigaOS 4. Its hardware features were also showcased, with its SIM card slot and aerial, its ability to boot AmigaOS from SD card.
Sam460ex
- FlexATXFlexATXFlexATX is a motherboard form factor derived from ATX. The specification was released in 1999 by Intel as an addendum to the microATX specification...
form factor (21.6 × 17 cm) - AMCC 460ex SoC – passively cooled PowerPC 460 core up to 1.15 GHz and including a double precision floating point unitFloating point unitA floating-point unit is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers. Typical operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root...
(FPU) - max 2 GB DDR2 Ram – 200-pin SODIMM up to 533 MHz
- Silicon Motion SM502 embedded MoC (audio/video) max 64MB video memory
- Audio 5.1 Realtek ALC655 codec
- PCI-express 4× lanes slot (16x mechanical connector)
- PCI-express 1× lane slot (mutually exclusive with the SATA2 port)
- PCI slot, 32 bit, 66/33 MHz, 3.3V
- 1× SATA2 port (mutually exclusive with the PCI-e 1x slot)
- 6× USB2 EHCI/OHCI ports
- 2× 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports
- SD card reader
- Serial port
The SATA2 port and the PCI-e 1x slot are mutually exclusive, only one of them can be used at a time.
Sam460ex Lite
The specifications are the same as for the Sam460ex, except for:- AMCC 460ex SoC clocked at 1 GHz
- 512 MB DDR2 RAM