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- From: slider
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 3DO M2 Upgrade to PowerAmiga Possible?
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 19:21:57 GMT
- Organization: Jay Miner........Father of great things and a true engineering visionary...he is sorely missed around the world
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- -> jon@funcom.com (Anders Dybdahl) writes:
- -> Lycaon (jonr@cure.ct.se) wrote:
- -> : Is there any possibility to make a 3D0 M2 card to extend the coming
- -> : PowerAmigas?
- ->
- -> The 3DO company have said that they will be making PC-cards based on M2
- -> technology in the future. I'll guess that they will be based on PCI, so
- -> if the PowerAmigas gets a PCI interface there should be no problems..
- ->
- -> : They
- -> : both runs on PPC-CPU's and are using a rather similar architecture.
- ->
- -> The PPC in the M2 is a custom one.. Double precision FPU stuff is removed
- -> and the bus is a special 3DO one..
- ->
- -> ---
- ->
- -> // Jon Rocatis / Programmer / Funcom Productions
- -> \// jon@funcom.com. I speak for myself - not for Funcom...
-
- I second that. Just because 2 computers use a PPC cpu does not necessarily mean
- they both can do the same things. The PPC spec is a modular design with the actual PPC
- being just a base chip and manufactures can add or remove modules as they see fit
- All PPC cpu's from different vendors are custom in one way or another as the chip is
- completely modular. PC manufacturers add or request not to have certain options at their will.
- laterzzzzz
- James Vigliotti
- slider@ccnet.com
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