| From: | William W. Toner II |
| Date: | 05 Dec 99 at 10:34:09 |
| Subject: | [warpup] Re: Test |
On 06-Dec-99, Steffen Haeuser wrote:
>
> owner-warpup-list@haage-partner.com wrote :
>
> Hi!
>
>> My greatest concern about Phase5's PPC only G4 cards, is that the 68k
>> emulator doesn't work good enough to run Dopus5.5...
>> I concider Dopus as the most usable program ever...
>> That's the main reason why I haven't ordered a G4 card yet...
>
> Provided the fact that the memory-controllers needed for >350 MHz G4 are
> still not available for anybody asides from Apple this year, and provided
> the fact that QNX said they won't start porting their OS to PPC i have still
> my doubts this product will see the light of day, even if P5 did a lot of PR
> for it.
And I don't understand why P5 is so interested in using Motorola's PCI/SDRAM
controller chip. They could do one with programmable logic chips like CPLDs
or FPGAs without too much trouble. They supposedly had so much work invested
in A\box (ahem) that they could just put the memory and PCI interfaces into a
programmable chip pretty easy... I don't think it makes much sense to use a
CHRP style chip like Motorola's when Phase 5 has to hack around the CHRP
address map to make the rest of the Amiga work right anyway...
And I don't think the Phase 5 cards will be as good as amiJoe anyway, by
comparing the specs... And I'll most likely be going with Escena at this
point. I'm not sure how benchmarks and real applications will compare between
amiJoe and Escena, but we have yet to see anything real regarding an
A3000/4000 version of amiJoe, I don't have an A1200, and I think that even if
Metabox does smart up and go with WarpUP officially, we still won't see the
A3000/4000 version of amiJoe with WarpUP before the Brainstormer.
Bill Toner
bill@prodatasys.com