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Re: So where did the PPC amiga thing come from?
« on: April 14, 2011, 06:15:09 PM »
I'm going to invent a time machine, go back to 1985, and port the Amiga OS to the PDP-11 or something, just to pre-empt this bickering about which non-68k processor the Amiga was on first and is therefore totally the real New Amiga.
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Re: So where did the PPC amiga thing come from?
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2011, 12:08:32 AM »
Quote from: Karlos;631905
Bridgeboards served no purpose beyond hardware compatibility for guest operating systems (MS DOS et al). The AmigaOS host didn't use them for anything AFAIK.
Well, they are used for working with ISA cards...from 68k software ;)
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