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Posted by priest on 14-Oct-2002 11:46 GMT | In reply to Comment 11 (Anonymous): I do not see any problem, this is very good news to the community.
As far as I know IBM PPC970 will be fully SW compatible with G3 and G4.
IIRC, almost every PPC processor has it's own kind of socket or at least different pin arrangements (even different G4s have different pin arrangements), so you need to re-design the motherboard between G3, G4 and G5 anyway, unless you have the CPU on a slot like in pegasos and AmigaOne-XE.
When PPC970 ships later in 2003, there is still the need for low end CPUs, like 600Mhz G3, but I'm pretty sure the faster G4 (motorola chip) cards for pegasos and/or AmigaOne-XE are available at that time anyway and almost no-one will want 600Mhz G3 any more.
PPC970 can mean that it or G4 (or G5) chips are more easily available because there is more high end PPC ships on the market in general. |
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