| From: | greenboy |
| Date: | 12 Oct 2000 at 16:56:27 |
| Subject: | AMIOPEN: Zorro vs PCI - My Sword is Bigger |
>>PCI is, what, *glancing at his Amiga Hardware Reference Manual
>>and doing some simple math in his head* between 4 and 16 times
>>faster than the best performance the Zorro III bus could
>>*theoretically* get. The AGP slot is much, much faster.
> Matthew J Fletcher :
>Zorro is only limited by the offical timeings, if its was re-
>implemented today (with 2000 tech as opposed to 1989 tech), it would be
>just as fast as PCI/AGP, the zorro aysnc design is more advanced than
>the PCI v2.1 spec, its just that the implementation was only as good as
>the state of technology when it was built.
Tell that to Dave Haynie ; } I'm sure he'll get a chuckle. Even
allowing for optimum implementation, that is not what he has said.
Götz, perhaps you still have a Haynie post on this topic. If it is
from Phoenix just judiciously edit (or send it to me and I will),
he's covered this extensively, having somewhat of an interest in it.
Bottom line: PCI wins, hands-down.
Some of you guys spend an awful lot of time bringing out issues that
have foregone conclusions. The decisions and the work have already led
elsewhere.
<-- greenboy ---<<<
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