| From: | Steve Hodson |
| Date: | 08 Apr 00 at 20:52:17 |
| Subject: | Re: Survey on OS for M@tabox Boards |
Hello Sam
On 08-Apr-00, you wrote:
> What shouldn't be forget: a G3/G4 card does only make sense in conjunction
> with graphics boards. I would even say they do only make sense in
> conjunction with *fast* graphics boards (>Z3). Otherwise the difference in
> processing power between today's processors and G3/G4 gets lost/wasted. I
> also ask myself whether the classic AMIGA hardware architecture really can
> handle this level of processing power anymore.
Yes...a top speed 68k barely capable of driving PCI let alone AGP (thinking
BoXeR here)
>
> If those PPC-only boards came out 2-3 years ago it would have been a great
> thing. Now I fear that they come too late.
hmm...if they come 2 or 3 years ago the emulation speed would have been
unacceptable..but maybe there would've been more development biased towards
PPC..but no need to drag out who screwed that up eh?
Regards,
Steve