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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 3 Mar 1996 09:29:22 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
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- Mark Worden (mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca) said:
- >nyle landas (nyle@cyber1.servtech.com) wrote:
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- >: I have read the PowerAmiga is slated for 1st quarter 1997. PowerPC cards
- >: for exsisting Amigas should be out this summer from Phase 5.
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- >I know hardly anything about these PowerPC boards, so can someone answer
- >a few (maybe dumb) questions for me?
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- >What kind of speed will it have compared to an actual PowerPC? I had an
- >EMPLANT Deluxe in my A3000/030 awhile ago, and it ran dreadfully slow. I
- >don't want to have to add a 68060 to my A3000 to get something
- >half-usable, so I'm hoping this board will be decent in terms of
- >compatibility and speed.
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- Um! The PowerPC board isn't an EMULATOR of a PowerPC chip, it *IS* a PowerPC
- chip! It *replaces* your processor.
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- Rest of questions chopped as they also missed the point.. :)
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