Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 524 from 2003/11/25
From: Belgrade
Actually, the PA6T-1682M was originally (i.e. before becoming embedded part) intended to be a notebook type CPU.
> of G5 CPU
"G5" is usually considered as belonging to PPC970 microarchitecture family. However, the PA6T is a unique microarchitecture of its own, developed from scratch.
True, but actually all G designations are Apple designations for chip generation, and dont exist. Its kind of PentiumPro or 64-bit modern arhitecture designation.
At least I download Mint PPC G5 64-bit and it does work on PA Semi.
PA Semi is great chip, sadly I have just its only
> It seems Pa Semi on Nemo is downclocked to 1.8GHz from 2Ghz
No, according to Varisys and A-Eon it isn't:
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7183&start=472
Well I don`t believe them a bit. My chip is clocked at 1.8Ghz and originally it was introduced as 2Ghz only. Its now possible to buy it at 2Ghz at selected dealers.
http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=2199
> OS4 doesn't support nearly half of board features now.
I think it supports more than half.
Trust me, less then half. DOnt let me count em.
> XCore is not UNUSABLE chip [...]. it can do things like SMART HOME CONTROL.
Which, as I said, would make no sense to me on something like the X1000.
It can make sense if you make use of it, sadly its not boosted in any proper way. My hardware boys find interesting possible uses, but its MUCH MUCH hustle.
> A real DSP on board would be way more Amigish, like Falcon had.
Atari computers are "Amigish"? Interesting note
Falcon is. more then crippled A600, A1200, A4000 and CD32.
> they did false advertising with its comparison to Transputer
Let's see what "they" actually claim with regard to Transputer:
"
XMOS calls it "Software Defined Silicon", we call it 'Xena' [...]. It's the inheritor of the 'transputer' concept [...]. [...] you might have a Xorro board with an array of additional XMOS chips on, connected together to allow highly multi-threaded applications to run in parallel, in a similar fashion to the famous Transputer concept, the predecessor of the XMOS technology."
http://www.a-eon.biz/nemo.html
I can't really see anything "false" in these claims.
Don`t let me find all adverts from that time.
> and adding more Xena cores (how when Xorro isn`t it? Via USB? PCI?)
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1135