| From: | William W. Toner II |
| Date: | 05 Dec 99 at 12:53:29 |
| Subject: | [warpup] Re: Test |
On 06-Dec-99, Kolbj�rn Barmen wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, William W. Toner II wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Brainstormer?
>
> IIRC the escena was supposed to live around all by itself on the zorro bus,
> as some advanced coprocessor card? Sounds even more like a computer in the
> computer than the P5 cards, might just as well get a PCI busboard and
> some PCI based oneboard ppc computer from motorola. Or what?
>
> Really.. wouldnt it be alot simpler for all of us if we just dropped all
> these non-standard solutions and went for a PoP-box?
What's a PoP-box? Will WarpUP run on it so I can use all my Amiga software? If
not, I'll stick with my miggy, and put as many non-standard solutions in it
as I like. :)
Bill Toner
bill@prodatasys.com