AGP bus expansion for Amiga?

[LoadWB]

With AGP cards becoming more and more difficult to source (at least new ones in the wholesale chain,) it'd be a waste of time trying to develop.  The next useful expansion would be PCIe (PCI Express.)

[LoadWB]

No but the UltimatePPC card that is  in development for the A3000 A4000 will have a lot of integrated peripherals onboard, graphics, sound, ethernet, USB etc,  all of which should easily outperform any PCI or AGP cards running across the Zorro bus.

http://ultimateppc.nl/

:eek: Holy cow.  Hadn't seen this before.

[LoadWB]

USB has in essence replaced ISA (both are crap!)

Is USB crap?  I would say not.  It has limitations, but most of things I disliked about USB 1.x and 2.0 have been corrected with USB3.  As well, a big part of my problems with USB were/are related to shytty drivers.

ISA < EISA < VLB < PCI < PCI-X < PCIe, and whatever else will come along.  I didn't include off-shoots like MCA and such ilk.  It's been pretty neat to watch things progress over time.  The story is that Intel intentionally crippled AGP, and if true it would be a great example of the industry manipulating itself for planned obsolescence.

[LoadWB]

Folks, "I" didn't say they were crap; "I" feel they were evolutionary changes. The S-100 begat the ISA and morse code begat the serial interface. "I" consider the USB essential to inexpensive connectivity in this and only this current market. There WILL be another paradigm shift ("I'd" like it to use fiber optic). "I" don't condemn the technology I use; I just complain about the lack of support -- tried to buy a USB card supported in OS 4.1 lately -- and the unreasonable cost ($90 for an NEC USB card costing $5 to use in a Mediator?).

Oh, as far as stupid corporate decisions, y'all remember IBM's microchannnel 32-bit bus for the PS/2 line of computers?  Remember it was sold connected to a 386SX CPU with a 16-bit data bus?

Yeah, that's the MCA I mentioned.  Niche, proprietary buss.  I actually had an MCA parallel port for a while I tried to offload on someone.  Surprisingly, no takers.

And I blame you for my mis-quote :whack: I missed the ramble to which your post referred but did not quote, so all I saw was you asking why USB is crap.  By this I perceived you as making a declarative in the form of an interrogative.  I have fixed this in my original.  Sorry for the screw up.