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<td colspan="5" align="center" bgcolor="#FF0000"><font face="Arial" size="6"><strong>PowerPC 603e/060/240</strong></font></td>
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<td width="50%" valign="middle" align="center"><p align="center"><font size="3" color="#FF0000" face="Arial"><b>Compatibility</b></font><br>
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<td width="50%" valign="middle" align="center"><p align="center"><font size="3" color="#FF0000" face="Arial"><b>Requirements</b></font><br>
<align="center"><font size="0" color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial"><b>Amiga 1200.</b></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="3" color="#FF0000" face="Arial"><b>Price</b></font><br>
<align="center"><font size="+3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial"><b>£599.00</b></font></p>
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With this innovative and powerful new accelerator a
new dimension of performance is brought to the
Amiga 1200, with performance increases of multiple
times beyond the performance of the fastest 68k
based accelerators available today, for a
sensationally low price that is perfectly targeted at
the A1200 upgrade market.
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Primarily being designed as an upgrade board for
existing Amiga systems, the BLIZZARD 603e Power
Board incorporates phase 5's innovative
dual-processor technology, where a fast PowerPC
RISC processor is combined with a 68k processor.
In the case of the BLIZZARD 603e Power Board, a
choice of 68040-25 or 68060-50 CPU. The CPUs
dynamically share the memory and system busses,
which is necessary for a true multiprocessor
behaviour. While the original AmigaOS 3.x
continues to run on the 68K CPU (as well as all
existing applications) providing 100% compatibility -
the PowerPC 603e CPU is supported by a
comprehensive PPC Library developed by phase 5,
which provides all functionality to integrate the
PowerPC into the Amiga multitasking environment.
Software developers can easily optimise their
programs step by step by porting single tasks to
PowerPC code, which then can run parallel with
68k tasks. Many important Amiga software vendors
are preparing ported or optimised versions of their
software packages already, so it is expected that a
large quantity of software products supporting the
PowerPC will be available soon.
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This BLIZZARD 603e Power Board is available with
the fast PowerPC603e processor at a clock speed
of 240MHz. Also on the board is a 68060 processor
at a clock speed of 50mhz. Also provided is a fast
memory expansion option which uses standard
PS/2 type SIMMs. The memory is dynamically
shared by the two CPUs on the BLIZZARD 603e
Power Board. No SCSI-II interface is available on
the entry level 603e Power Board (though a Fast
SCSI-II control is standard on the 603e+ range).
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A maximum of 128 megabytes of memory can be
fitted to the two SIMM sockets
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With it's fast 603e processor the BLIZZARD 603e
Power Board provides blistering performance that
can compete with most of the fastest PC systems
available today. With this performance the
BLIZZARD 603e Power Board is ready for the most
demanding applications such as 3D rendering and
high-speed 3D gameplaying, image manipulation,
animation, video applications, and many other
demanding applications that depend on fast CPU
performance.
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A standard Amiga A1200 runs at a speed of around
1 million instructions per second. The 68060 in the
Power Board is capable of close to 38 MIPS, while
the 240mhz 603e processor is running at 338 MIPS.
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