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- From: vid.pecjak@guest.arnes.si (Jernej Pecjak)
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- Subject: Re: Phase-5 Vaporware; Maybe Warp Engine Better?
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 09:12:27 GMT
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- >I'm beginning to wonder if the wait for CyberStorm is even worth it.
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- >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.
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- >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.
-
- >What do you think? Should I wait for the CyberStorm and see what comes of
- >it? Does anyone know if anything will be coming of the Warp Engine's '060
- >upgradability option? (The Warp Engine '060 question is the main reason I
- >wrote this post, so if anyone has any information on that, please reply.)
-
- There is an Apolo 4060 also with built in scsi-ii and 4 simm slots (takes EDO
- ram also). Cyberstorm is not worth the wait IMHO. It has defective scsi-ii and
- the Warp Engine I heard (not tested!!!) that if you put 2 simms in it, you
- don't have contignous memory :-(((
-
- Jernej
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