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Re: APUS hardware support?



On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 07:43:16PM +1100, Ken Tyler wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> 
> > --- Bj?rn Johansson <amigafreak@home.se> wrote:
>  
> > > The graphics cards you buy today for Amiga has very high prices compared to
> > > those which exist for pc:s. If I connect a PCI-graphic card at my PCI port
> > > on the Amiga, can I use this graphic card with Linux?
>  
> > AFAIK there are no Amigas with a PCI bus (PCI is a bus, not a port as AGP).
> > Note that Phase5's proprietary bus for the B/CVision is *not* PCI. (If it
> > was, the bandwidth would be a bit higher than 20 MB/s ;)
> 
> On the LinuxPPC site is a link to IBM's POP reference platform. A mother
> board with 750 Mhz PPC and  PCI bus.
> 
> Anyone any comments on these gadgets or know of anyone who makes them ?

Sure, but they are not yet produced. I guess also that the POP board H&P
demostrated at cologne was a false one, probably one of the older ibm boards,
or maybe one from motorolla.

Anyway, if you want info about them, look at :

http://www.openppc.org/

and 

http://www.popcomputers.com/

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER


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