| [News] Pictures of Mediator in Action | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 04-Sep-2000 08:11 GMT by Henrik Mikael Kristensen | 49 comments
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In an ANN Mediator article discussion a link to http://www.elbox.com/press is mentioned (for those of you who missed it). It contains pretty good pictures of the Mediator in action. Unfortunately it will probably suffer from the competition from the Predator AGP-board.
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| Posted by Amifan on 06-Sep-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 44 (Michael Jantzen):
What a b*llshit! Your probably disappointed that an amiga can be faster then your duron with a fast bus system too...
You can use G3 cards in a PC PCI slot BTW. Why not? just write a driver and make sure that you can write a MAC emulator which uses the beast.
What do you expext??? A couple of pci slots on a PCB???? there's a complete firmware on the thing that handles the IRQ mapping......there's probably some kind of PCI.library or PCI.device too which recognizes the PCI cards......just write a driver for the library......as simple as it can be....
Sorry, but isn't a Powerup board or another accelerator a computer-on-a-board too??
The PCI G3/G4 just fits in another slot with one huge difference: it's connected directly to the PCI bus and therefore has access to the full 132MB/s bandwidth of the PCI bus. People like you forget that booting LinuxPPC or MorphOS is done by the 68k too....Morphos disables the 68k and reboots, LinuxPPC uses the 68k for some drivers.
What about booting the amiga with the 68K, install the libs and reboot like Morphos does (OS35 has to reboot anyway to apply some patches), and run a 68K emulation.
$2000!??? yeah sure....were not talking about quad G4's here. There are much cheaper PCI accelerators available....but they don't ship all with DIMM sockets....
Read the Elbox announcement?? They said they would offer a much better sollution then the DIMM socket on the busboard (Predator).
Just wait and see...instead of whining that you don't want this to be possible because it would be a beast which leaves your Duron far behind in speed....... |
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