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From:Don Cox
Date:24 Oct 2000 at 14:15:49
Subject:Re: Amiga announcing silly named things? ;)

On 24-Oct-00, Eyetech tech assistance wrote:

> With 680x0 emulation on the G3/G4 (which will be a boot option from
> the AmigaOne's flash ROM) the board will just look like an Amiga
> accelerator to the native Amiga, will boot kickstart etc. All the old
> hardware will be available - which is the real point of dooing it this
> way. All the PCI resources will also be available, but will obviously
> need 680x0 compatible drivers which we are not planning to write (but
> will give all assistance to anyone who wants to write PD ones). More
> likely is that the whole process will give an added impetus to a
> Classic Amiga 'emulator' under Amiga DE, which will allow the old
> Amiga to be thrown away and the new PCI resources to be used by
> Classic Amiga software.

It sounds like a very good solution to me, and much better than the G4
boards that Phase5 had planned last year.

And no pre-payment requested. ;-)

Regards



Don Cox
doncox@enterprise.net

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