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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: 1 Apr 1996 09:01:07 GMT
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- >Well, of course *they* don't... What I'm wondering is what *you* guys
- >think of the Apollo. Is it stable at all? Any SCSI or RAM problems?
- >I may end up getting a Warp Engine after all, but I just want to
- >consider all my alternatives.
-
- It seems to me you don't have that many alternatives...
-
- >: The thing I'm scared
- >: about with the 060 is the horror stories from many on the net about
- >: random freezes, scsi bugs, and other stuff.
-
- >Yeah, that's true. It's sort of like the penalty you pay for being an
- >'040 user really, only worse. So many programs freak completely at the
- >sight of the '040's datacaches. The '060's superscalar pipelining is
- >just more unexpected architechture that badly written programs will
- >have to deal with. Motorola made the 68060 specifically to be fully
- >compatible with the '040, but still, there are always those programs
- >that expect everything to be right where it was on the author's own
- >computer. I hate it when people code like it's still 1975.
-
- I have a 060 now, and it works perfetly will all my programs except squirrel
- scsi-ii.
-
- >: IMHO I would get a warp engine. Incredibly stable board, fully supported
- >: by the OS-no cyberpatcher needed. Fully compatible with ShapeShifter,
- >: etc....(that is get a warp engine IF you are going to get an accelerator
- >: today.
-
- >I'm strongly considering that. I'd still like a little more information
- >from anyone who has it out there on the Apollo. I'll probably still take
- >the Warp Engine, though. I plan to run a fulltime BBS on the system,
- >online 24-hours, 7 days a week, without rebooting, so stability is high
- >priority here. And Warp Engine boards are not exactly *slow* by any
- >means, even if they are an '040 based accelerator...
-
- I will let you know of Apolo as soon as I get it (maybe this week).
-
- Jernej
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