Atheist wrote:
Could an accelerator card be made where a 2.26 GHz P4 is on the board?
Now, I'm not talking about the bridgeboard slot, but the standard accelerator slot used by 680x0's.
There's the big endian little endian issue. What if you just reverse the traces, so that the bytes that go into and come out of the CPU are reversed, thereby, being correct instructions/data?
AmigaOne! Keep the originals strong.
I like your thinking, Because you could then run AROS or an x86 emulator (Umilator...) and you Amiga would go on... even though the Chipset is too slow to be usefull. But I wouldn't want to run a P4 from the Power supply of the trapdoor, And certainly not from a standard A1200 PSU!?!?!?! A 1Ghz C3 might be a more worthy canditate at 12Watts.
But reversing the traces is not good, it will sort out the Data reading and writing problems in some cases, but I imagine it will cause problems with differing word sizes, 64bit anyone?
I think a glue logic chip to perform intelegent byte order conversion would be a better idea.
Still a nice idea, but a little too late for the Amiga IMHO, the chipset is just too old for the idea to make sense, 2 meg/s across the Custom chip bus!!!
Too slow.
A better idea is to pick up a Mini-ITX for £60 and run AROS or an Emulator on it.
:-)
