| From: | Jonathan Hart |
| Date: | 23 Oct 2000 at 20:03:23 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcing silly named things? ;) |
Hi there Eyetech
On 23-Oct-00, you wrote:
> For connection to the Amiga (A1200 Z4-compatible tower or A4000 desktop
> tower conversion) the A1200 edge connector or the A4000D CPU connector
> will be used. Because a G3/G4 processor is required there is no longer any
> need to have a Blizzard/Cyberstorm accelerator (as is the case with the
> low cost Predator-SE design) as the interfacing logic has been brought
> onto the main board.
Sso the edge connector is used simply as a kind of "compatibility bus" when
you run the AmigaDE? When no longer needed you can take away the old 1200
board? Sounds neat.
It does work the other way as well? If you boot into the Classic can you use
the PPC, SDRAM, PCI USB etc (as long as their are drivers)- like one big
accellerator card? If I've understood this concept, it sounds like a good
way to share resources. Similar to the mooted PCI Siamese card in reverse.
> And for commercial reasons any purely ATX PPC design will have to be an
> all-purpose design capable of running other OS's too (eg PPC Linux) and
> this requires much more in the way of compliance testing and hence cost
> and lead time. The upside is that when it is eventually delivered the
> wider appeal will hopefully translate to higher volumes and lower prices.
I suppose in my heart of hearts I wanted the transition machine to be a PoP
board or (ideally), a BoXer, but this sounds excellent, a lot more
desirable to me than "simply" a PCI bus attached to my old Phase5 card.
> And hopefully to allay any more fears about delivery you may be relieved
> to know that we are not attempting to design/produce the AmigaOne
> 1200/4000 in house but are effectively project managing the efforts of
> some of the best Amiga and PPC designers around.
So you're saying it'll be about three months late then? ;P
All the best,
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