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- From: Donald.Kennedy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Donald Kennedy)
- Subject: Sparc-on-a-card for Amiga
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.005608.26343@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Keywords: Sparc, graphics, UNIX, bridgeboard
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- Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:56:08 GMT
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- To Ralph Seguin:
-
- How is the Opus Systems Sparc card hardware sensitive? I would tend to
- think that the AT Bridgeboard would be OK, unless it's an order of
- magnitude pickier than I would think. How about running it remote using
- X-Windows, if the BB idea wouldn't work?
-
- To Thomas Leavitt:
-
- I'd LOVE to see it adapted to Zorro II or III but the economic realities
- of it would be somewhat limited. That's why the Palomax interface looked
- attractive. I've contacted the Palomax guy before about some custom
- hardware I was interested in developing. He's written drivers for DSP and
- other complex PC hardware using his hardware interface, so I figure the
- Sparc systems could be in the realm of possibility...
-
- I've always thought that CBM should recompile or reassemble AmigaDOS or
- EXEC to run on a RISC/Sparc processor. License the GL libs from SGI and
- you have an instant "Indigo Killer" ;)
-
- BTW, I looked into the IRISVision card from SGI. It is much more processor
- and host dependant than the Sparc systems. The company now handling the
- distribution of former SGI products for PC/Mac said that they recommended
- a fast 386/486DX system for it to work in a decent fashion. It would be
- MUCH harder to get working on an Amiga system.
-
- Don Kennedy
- Donald.Kennedy@bbs.oit.unc.edu
-
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