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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12058 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > From a design standpoint, I don't think an e6500 or e5500 cored CPU
    > would be easier to implement.

    Why not? The SoC already incorporates the memory controller and other northbridge functionality, and there'd be no need to route traces from pins of unneeded on-chip peripherals.

    > The e600 cored cpus are much more similar to the cpus used on older
    > PCI boards like those we have been discussing.

    None of the designs of those older PCI boards are open, so they would have to be designed from scratch anyway.

    > the software would be the same. No need for separate development.

    The same as what? Not separate from what? It's not like MorphOS already supports older PCI-based accelerators.
    And e6500 support shouldn't be that hard given that MorphOS already supports both AltiVec and e5500.
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