| From: | Eyetech tech assistance |
| Date: | 24 Oct 2000 at 11:17:16 |
| Subject: | Re: AmigaOne 1200/4000 (was Re: Amiga announcing silly named things? ;)) |
>
> 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?
Yes, but we won't be writing the drivers. I'm sure someone out there will
want to port them back from VP just for the hell of it, but the idea is that
by 3Q01 AmigaOS will - as per previous Amiga inc - statements run 'in some
way under Amiga DE so you'll have access to those resources anyway.
>If I've understood this concept, it sounds like a good
> way to share resources. Similar to the mooted PCI Siamese card in reverse.
Yes in fact the logic on the board makes the Amiga look like a bus-mastering
PCI card to the rest of the system
>
> > 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
Well at least the German 5 week August closedown is out of the way ;-)
>
Alan
>
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