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- From: ecsjols@klecsd.ericsson.se (Joakim Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 3DO M2 Upgrade to PowerAmiga Possible?
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:15:29 GMT
- Organization: Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
- Message-ID: <4e7ood$n9o@erinews.ericsson.se>
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- On 24 Jan 1996 19:21:57 GMT, slider wrote:
-
- >-> 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
-
- As far as I know, the PPC is, as you say, modular, but the PPC is merely a
- standardset of instructions that are the same on all PPCs, thus they can
- work very differently.
-
- /Joakim Olsen (ecsjols@klecsd.ericsson.se)
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