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- From: michael rye <1726@topcity.mn.org>
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- Subject: Re: Hooray for Amiga Tech.
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 18:25:22 GMT
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- flundin@algonet.se (Fredrik Lundin)
- ??>: Is this prototype going to be available by Xmas? If so, are they making it
- ??>: a PPC machine?
-
- Jason Compton wrote:
- JC>I would hope that it will be available by Christmas.
-
- That would be awesome! Of course, I'm waiting for the PPC *cards* to come
- out so I can put one in my A1200. Aren't those supposed to be around in the
- middle of '96????
-
- JC>AT themselves are unsure what the machine will wind up being, its design
- JC>has been outsourced to another firm. From the best indications
- JC>available, it will be a slot-box machine with AGA. No, not PowerPC, they
-
- FL>If it have a A3000/4000 CPU-slot and one or more PCI-slot, and it's fine
- FL>with AGA if they put a PCI slot in there.
- FL>Let me put it this way. I rather have *one* PCI slot than 20 ZorroIII..
-
- Hear, hear! PCI would be excellent.
-
- FL>If Windows95 can do plug n' play PCI, it shouldn't be a huge task to
- FL>implement PCI on the Amiga MB and autoconfig PCI in the OS.
- FL>(I'm mainly thinking of PCI gfx-cards)
-
- Funny thing is in a lot of the cases, the PeeCee machine has to be 100% PnP
- hardware in order for the PnP of Windoze 95 to work. (Bear in mind, I mean
- *most* of the cases, not all.) I've been trying to help my roommates add
- stuff to there PeeCee Clowns for the past couple of weeks. One example, a new
- 64 bit video card made by ATI. Plug it into one roommate's machine and it
- doesn't work. Plug it into the other roommate's machine, it works. The only
- difference in motherboards between the two is processor speed, otherwise
- they're identical. Go figure! "Shrug and Pray" fits better!
-
- JC>wouldn't have a chance of being done by then, as they are only now having
- JC>joint meetings with Motorola and Phase5.
-
- FL>Sigh. And remember the summer? 6 weeks of holiday all over Europe.
- FL>Time's moving, others don't..
-
- >Jason Compton jcompton@xnet.com
- >Editor-in-Chief, Amiga Report Magazine (708) 741-0689 FAX
-
- FL>Fredrik Lundin \ "Some folks you don't have to satirize, you just quote em"
-
- We really need some advertising. I think it's about time for AT to try to
- get the ball rolling a little better than they have so far.
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