| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 23 Aug 2000 at 13:24:47 |
| Subject: | Re: PCI BUS BOARD |
Hello Nick
On 23-Aug-00, you wrote:
> Hi Kevin
>
>>> I myself am waiting for the BoXeR to arrive (ho yuss, Mick and Joe
>>> are beavering away as we speak!) which will have PCI slots. And USB
>>> ports. And all kinds of neat bits (like a 64bit processor connector
>>> - whoop!!)
>>
>> I don't like to talk about the Boxer, it's the one project I've really
>> wanted to see come to fruition, and I've almost given up hope.
>
> I'm surprised you haven't given up already. Because it would seem, that
> this Boxer project is the work of a perfectionist and as a consequence will
> probably never see the light of day, until it really is too late.
It'll see the light of day alright. Too late? Maybe to be a Classic Amiga,
that's almost a given. To be a decent computer in it's own right? It's only
just beginning. It could well be the first non-Apple PPC board to hit any
kind of mainstream computing market in production numbers..
Where is IBM's POP board now?
The great thing is that it is equipped with these FPGA chips. I was reading
up on USB 2.0 the other day, and was quite pleased to see that all the
prototype systems are in FPGA form - a simple license and USB 2.0 could
be implemented on the BoXeR via a pretty vacant multiport hub on a PCI
card..
> chip is so expensive compared to a whole new motherboard - often a whole
> A1200 or 4000 could be binned because an 8520 has blown or something.
Blown CIA chip? Why, just reboot with the BoXeR :)
>>> The Mediator is already 2 months late, isn't it? Bets on it
>>> happening this side of Christmas? :P
>>
>> I'm not a betting man, and I even have trouble being an optimist these
>> days ;-)
>
> The way i see things are, don't worry about them - if they arrive, they
> arrive. If you expect tghese things to happen when they say they will then
> you'll be very disappointed person! Esp. as far as the Amiga market goes!
Agreed. But think back to the Mediator's dark past as the Power A5000
motherboard, and wonder to yourself if it really is more hopeful a project
as the BoXeR motherboard. Hey, with Joe Torre on board now, we could
probably see a near-simultaneous release of the Mediator and BoXeR and a
vast influx of interchangable PCI drivers ;)
Thanks
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