• Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    jcmarcos
    Posts: 1178 from 2003/3/13
    From: Pinto, Madrid ...
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    Andreas_Wolf wrote:

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    I was trying to point out that the chosen CPU is a mistake.


    That's why I also mentioned Varisys's experience with MPC86xx. Or would you consider that choice a mistake as well? If yes: What Power Architecture CPU wouldn't be a mistake in your eyes?


    In my opinion, as I've expressed many times, the MPC8610 is the sensible choice. There's only two drawbacks:

    1.- Every CPU looses value as time passes: This little clever MPC8610 isn't exactly a wonder nowadays. Not to mention what it would look like by the time you finally start selling a board with it.

    2.- My opinion isn't worth a dime, of course.

    Hey, what the hell happened to the (Nec?) RedTail?!

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    Powerful (for what?)


    See my posting I linked to for some examples.


    I see recent videogames and high definition content. Fine. In my opinion, these aren't absolute requirements for our little world. Moreso if meeting them complicates things as much as it does (once again, this statement is void if we could use a certain very popular brand of CPUs).

    But opinions are like asses: Everybody has one :-D

    And I like PowerPC, but like many others, only for breed reasons. Nothing rational. Other CPUs are as clever, if not more, tha "ours".

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    Probably there won't be any other PWRficient CPU than PA6T-1682M, yes.


    And yet they use it as the standing stone for a revolution.

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    But that wouldn't stop A-Eon from using QorIQ P5 for instance, in an X1000 successor


    Noticed the ROTFL of many at reading the last three words?

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    (should there ever be one, that is)


    Then, it would be using a "dead" CPU as the standing stone for a revolution which will be the standing stone for a second revolution. All sounding very real.

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    I think PA6T will continue to be manufactured for some years to come, at least until mid-2011 (to mid-2013 maximum)


    If only making a new computer would take half a year... See, even the humble Efika 5200 took years to mature.
    Then, I die with envy at those computers being made so easily (in comparison) just because they use "normal" CPUs. Heck, even the whole rest of our computers is made with "normal" components, and yet the biggest problem is connecting them to the weird CPUs we love.

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    that would explain why the specs can't be the ones chosen by a sensible engineer.


    We'll probably never know to what extent the May 2007 announcement of Amiga Inc.'s and ACK's 'Power Design' had an influence


    Very, very nicely spotted, Andreas, as always. More interesting is that, even back then, you cared to use Wayback's Machine cache...

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    There's really only one coming to my mind: the PPC970(MP), see the TetraPower/Bimini board


    Fantastic trip in time with those links, mate. The most complete information about the mythical G5 computer Genesi wanted to make, please guys take a look, even at the first link Andreas collected back then.

    I also remember Matt "Neko" Sealey saying the 970 was basically an expensive bitch, and thus project didn't make sense.

    That kind of sensible reasoning is completely absent in the X-1000 project. Not that I care much about it, but when one thinks the Amiga name has been dragged in the mud enough already, yet another guy is able to do it once more. Amazing.
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