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- From: torrunes@pil.idt.unit.no (Tor Rune Skoglund)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Phase-5 Vaporware; Maybe Warp Engine Better?
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 19:11:39 GMT
- Organization: The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Message-ID: <4jmldb$fj2@due.unit.no>
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- In article <4jl3pb$lr4@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
- Brent Busby <claevius@firefly.prairienet.org> wrote:
- >I'm beginning to wonder if the wait for CyberStorm is even worth it.
- >
- >MacroSystems has been producing a very reliable and efficient accelerator,
- >the Warp Engine, for some time now, and it offers most of the same advantages
- >that the CyberStorm does. The main difference between the two is that the
- >Warp Engine is an '040 board that only *promises* to be upgradable to a full
- >'060 board, but actually does exist as a buyable product, while the CyberStorm
- >*promises* to be a buyable product, but was actually once a full '060 board
- >during the time it was still on the market. I'm in a quandry.
- >
- >Should I buy a Warp Engine now? Should I wait for a CyberStorm '060 board
- >that, when released, may have to go through many board revisions before it's
- >a trustable, stable accelerator, assuming Phase-5 even bothers to *try* to
- >fully debug the board at all? The CyberVision graphics card, for all its
- >64-bit performance, is still not as fully integrated into the existing Amiga
- >OS and applications as Picasso is to this day, and many CyberVision users
- >report Enforcer hits for which Phase-5's support people who are supposed to
- >be correcting and debugging such problems seem to not care a bit about. With
- >this sort of "support", I really wonder if I'd be better off not getting it.
-
- You might also want to condiser the Apollo 4060. This accelerator has
- been available for the A3000 and A4000 since January, and is the only
- one, AFAIK, which supports EDRAM (not the same as EDO!). Enhanced
- DRAMs is said to be the memory architechture which will make EDO
- outdated in a couple of years. At the time being EDRAM SIMM as VERY
- expensive. Well, time will show...
-
- - Best Regards,
-
- Tor Rune Skoglund DataKompaniet as
- Tech. Manager/Partner Trondheim Innovation Centre
- Tel: +47 7354 0375 N-7030 Trondheim
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