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- From: wmaddock@icon-stl.net (William F. Maddock)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: VIScorp will continue PPC project - READ!
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 00:15:21 GMT
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- On 18-Apr-96 03:06:37 larrymb@gramercy.ios.com Pacarana wrote:
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- > From what I gather, which certianly could be wrong, the Acutiator thing
- > was
- >sort of a way to hack Hombre onto an AAA system. I don't think that makes
- >too much sense since we don't have AAA and wouldn't need it with were the
- >stand alone Hombre had evolvd too (unless perhaps it could hook a
- >PA-RISC/Hombre as a gfx card into a PPC system).
-
- Actually, Acutiator was intended to be a system interface protocol (kinda
- like ZorroIII on steroids), but was `abandoned' when PCI wound up doing
- pretty much the same things in addition to being adopted as an industry
- standard. As for Hombre, only one person in the entire world knows how that
- works and if I'm not mistaken, you're not him. According to Mr. Haynie,
- Hombre never got much beyond the paper stage, much less stand alone.
-
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- William F. Maddock www.icon-stl.net/~wmaddock wmaddock@icon-stl.net
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