• Butterfly
    Butterfly
    Posts: 80 from 2009/1/19
    Open sourced Pegasus re-implementation?

    Assumptions:

    1) Open Sourced Pegasos design usable by non-Genesi entity for re-implementation.
    2) People would buy it.

    Rough Ideas:
    MPC7447a (on motherboard, no CPU card)
    Upgrade to Marvell Discover VI controller.
    DDR2 RAM (533mhz). 2 Slots.
    PCI-e implementation
    PCI implementation ???
    SATA II
    USB 2
    Gigabit Ethernet
    AC97 Audio
    PS2 keys/mouse
    RS232 ???

    Key factors of design are:
    retain performance aspects of original Peg,

    reduce cost by elimination of CPU card feature and older legacy device support (parallel, joystick, firewire, floppy controller),

    and modernization through PCI-e (even if only X4) - SATA - and USB2.

    I know this isn't the greatest idea but thought I would throw it out for comment anyway.


    8-)
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