| From: | Nick Lamburn |
| Date: | 23 Aug 2000 at 15:13:43 |
| Subject: | Re: PCI BUS BOARD |
Hi Matt
>>>> 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..
So, i'm just wondering will Anti Gravity and Blittersoft have the muscle to
face up to IBM, Compaq, Dell etc.? Perhaps even Apple, being as they are
the only current mainstream user of the PPC chip for the home computer
market. Unless AG and Blittersoft get OENs on board, the Boxer if/when
released will only be a small market machine. But that's the way I see it.
> Where is IBM's POP board now?
I don't know, but where's the Boxer, not in any consumer's homes, like the
IBM POP.
>> 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 :)
Problem is that my A1200T, 3000 are not Boxers, though my A3000 has socketed
chips and not SMT CIAs.
>>>> 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 ;)
I'm not saying the Mediator is a mythical product, far from it, more chance
of that appearing any time soon compared to the Boxer. Justa question,
wasn't the A5000 Zorro II, or was PCI being implemented on it? And secondly
i thought the A5000/6000 were DCE's products, not Elbox's - the Mediator is
from Elbox isn't it?
Regards
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