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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: VIScorp will continue PPC project - READ!
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 19:00:17 -0700
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- >In article <1138.6682T1148T700@icon-stl.net>,
- >William F. Maddock <wmaddock@icon-stl.net> wrote:
- >>On 18-Apr-96 03:06:37 larrymb@gramercy.ios.com Pacarana wrote:
- >>
- >>> 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.
- >>
- >
- >I guess I am the one person who should know. I designed it.
- >
-
- [snip of technical info]
-
- >
- >>
- >>
- >>William F. Maddock www.icon-stl.net/~wmaddock wmaddock@icon-stl.net
- >>THOR #1621 GAC FLAK Editor in Chief
- >> The Newsletter of the Gateway Amiga Club, Inc.
- >>The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the GAC or its members
- >>
- >
- >Dr. Edward L. Hepler
- > President, Adjunct Professor,
- > VLSI Concepts, Inc. Villanova University
- > VLSI Architecture, Teaching graduate courses:
- > Design, CAD ECE-8445 Advanced Computer Architecture
- > ECE-8460 VLSI Design
- > elh@ece.vill.edu
- > (610) 408-9121 I John 5:10-13
-
- Dr Hepler,
-
- From the point Hombre was at when you left it to finished product
- ready to run ... how many months? Can you give us an idea?
-
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- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Unelected Official
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- Gemini2@cup.portal.com 1:106/7512.1 Team AMIGA
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- Proud supporter of Amiga Technologies/VisCorp
-
- ... How DO they get teflon to stick to the pans?
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