| From: | Joseph Fenton |
| Date: | 14 Dec 99 at 21:00:25 |
| Subject: | Re: [warpup] Something about G3/G4 cards |
Sam Jordan wrote:
>
> Supporting the P5 concept = turning away from AOS. And besides that, the
Darn straight! It doesn't matter what you throw on top,
Linux will NEVER be AmigaOS. Might as well just change the
look of Windows 98 and call it AOS.
> People should stop just focusing on processors, what we need is a good
> hardware design as a whole, not only a processor. A processor for itself
> is entirely useless, it *must* fit into an appropriate design.
That is the idea behind the BOXER; they licensed the Amiga
chip-set, then made a compatible design with modern techniques
and improvements... better memory support and access, PCI
support, etc. Too bad they didn't make PPC on the motherboard,
but you can't have everything.