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- From: nyle@cyber1.servtech.com (nyle landas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.be
- Subject: Re: 1995 Production Status?
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- Date: 24 Jan 1996 18:14:29 GMT
- Organization: ServiceTech, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4e5su5$1k@murphy.servtech.com>
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- Raphael MOLL (mipsyssw@platina.fr) wrote:
- : In article <4dp18h$1uq@murphy.servtech.com>, nyle@cyber1.servtech.com
- : (nyle landas) wrote:
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- : > ...
- : > Well since AmigaDos is going CHRP it'll run on the BeBox if Be makes the
- : > BeBox CHRP compliant which it mentioned. The same goes for the BeOS if Be
- : > makes it CHRP compliant it'll run on the upcoming Power Amigas. That's the
- : > whole point of CHRP (Ok, now PPRP I hear) to allow multiple OSs to run on a
- : > common archetecture. Same as PPRP machines will run Windows NT, AIX, OS/2,
- : > and soon Solaris and AmigaDos.
-
- : I still can't believe that this will be so easy...
- : How can the CHRP specifications be so well-designed that any OS will find
- : the way to use the chips of a CHRP platform ?
- : Does CHRP means that there can't be ANY custom, specialized chip on the board ?
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- Check out Motorola's PowerPC page for an overview of the CHRP archetecture.
- It has a PCI bus in which the Amiga PCI card could easily be inserted and
- AmigaDos could scan the PCI bus for the cards id to access the chips. There
- are other things in the speicification to add other OS fundimentals over the
- hardware. It actually looks good.
-
- -Nyle
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