Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1178 from 2003/3/13
From: Pinto, Madrid ...
Quote:
Zylesea wrote:
an 8610 board would have outperformed all other G4 ppc systems on most operations (not pure numbercrunchuing like OGR though) - an e600 core with a fast FSB.
...until you use its internal display unit, which steals CPU cycles the same way an Amiga does when using its custom chips. Or has it some mechanism for the DIU to read video mapped memory without blocking the CPU?
Sorry to bring up again this old debate, but my curiosity on this has never been satisfied.
Ulrich, didn't you actually own an 8610 evaluation board? Or was it Konstantinos?
