| [News] Amiga2k show analysis | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 03-Apr-2000 19:33 GMT by Christian Kemp | 19 comments
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Corinna Cohn went to the Amiga2k and posted
an extensive analysis on Moo Bunny.
She describes the show itself, provides a rundown of the products on display,
talks about Bill's speech and what she later talked with Bill and Fleecy.
Read
part 1,
part 2 and
part 3
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| Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 03-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT | I'm not sure if any non-x86 hardware can utilize AGP. The BoXer is a PPC board (or 680x0/PPC?), so it's a moot point. The exception to this rule may be some Alpha boards or SGI systems, but doubt that anything exists.
An x86 running Elate, native or hosted, should be able to take full advantage of such features, provided the drivers are in place. (If it's hosted, I'm going to guess that /both/ OSes are going to need drivers, which is why I don't see the hosting becoming a big priority under Linux.. except as a virtual machine for Java and other crossplatform environments, or for appliances, as others have said.)
This isn't rocket science, and while I know that many Amigans have avoided PC hardware like the plague, I'm surprised that these things aren't common knowledge. (...and are we sure that the audio ports on the ATX BoXer don't line up with the holes in the case, or is whoever reported that unfamiliar with the existence of about 3 different "standard" ATX shield designs? ...I'd hate to think of how many of the unused shields an OEM shop must throw out in a day..)
Bottom line: by only providing PCI, the BoXer might be limited to older-generation PC hardware, but this stuff is plentiful, and it'd probably be a real b*tch to put an AGP slot on it. You're not losing much, since apparently PCI Voodoo3s are available, and you're gaining the ability to use cheap ethernet cards, modems, U2WSCSI cards, and all sorts of other fun stuff... not to mention 16 bit audio :) |
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