| From: | Marion E. Wyatt |
| Date: | 14 Apr 00 at 21:56:21 |
| Subject: | Re: Survey on OS for M@tabox Boards |
On 12-Apr-00 at 09:26:52, Andreas Hippauf wrote these words of wisdom:
> Hello Marion Am 12-Apr-00 schrieb Marion E. Wyatt:
>
>> Also the RAM goes into 2 x 64-bit DIMM sockets. I think most of the
>> ports are DMA also for faster access. There is also a CD-ROM audio
>> input connector and mixer. Chip RAM is not limited to 2MB either. The
>> onboard IDE interface supports UDMA. There are 4 PCI slots, and there
>> is a 2MB 32-bit flash ROM to boot the OS and resident modules from.
>> Also a dual USB interface is on the motherboard.
>
>> I got all this from the spec sheet at the show.
>
> Well ok. This then sound like the new amiga we all have been waiting
> for, as soon as the main processor can be changed to G3 or G4. And the
> price with your hardwarespecs seems ok for me now, too.
> But they should provide some drivers for common (cheap?) PCI-
> graphicscards. (perhaps like on PC standard VGA-drivers).
I dunno, but it would be a good idea. Maybe somthing Holger Kruse does with
MNI drivers for ethernet cards would be a good idea. As long as card uses
the same chipset the driver shouldn't have to be that different for
different cards.
I don't know how drivers work, but they shouldn't that hard should they? I
think one of the hardest drivers for the BoXeR will be the USB ports.