| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 23 Aug 2000 at 16:50:25 |
| Subject: | Re: PCI BUS BOARD |
Hello Nick
On 23-Aug-00, you wrote:
>>> 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.?
They don't need to, do they?
> market. Unless AG and Blittersoft get OEMs on board, the Boxer if/when
> released will only be a small market machine. But that's the way I see it.
Was it ever going to be anything else? Did you see Mick Tinker's solid-state
laptop at Amiwest? That's one solid (ha!) bit of kit. The BoXeR could make a
very good companion for it, on the desktop. A very good way of prototyping
devices as well, using the FPGA. Just equip it with an ARM processor, stick
a PCI graphics card on, and run some kind of Unix on it. Not difficult.
>> 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.
LOL! You say that like the IBM POP boards are even OUT yet!?
>> 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.
That's highly debatable.
> wasn't the A5000 Zorro II, or was PCI being implemented on it?
It was getting a set of PCI slots. I have AF back issues with the specs in it.
FYI, I've had Ben and Andrew (I think.. or was it Neil?) say that Elbox and
Power were making a PCI board for the A1200 since before last August
at the latest. Then it disappeared..
> i thought the A5000/6000 were DCE's products, not Elbox's - the Mediator is
> from Elbox isn't it?
I was under the impression that it was a bit of a joint effort between a lot
of people.. Power Computing being the common factor..
Thanks
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