A better PPC accelerator poll

[Heiroglyph]

I'm not really interested in encouraging PPC.

A new 060 equivalent or faster, sure.
x86 or Arm, maybe with an OS.

But PPC is a dead end I've been lucky enough to avoid so far.

[Heiroglyph]

You mean like these?

http://www.gvp-m.com/pricejapan.html

Yeah, exactly.  I was *this* close to ordering one of the 060's from SoftHut until I got really lucky on a couple of used systems with 060's.

For the prices paid for fast 060's and especially PPC's, you'd think someone would have made a faster card for Amigas by now.

[Heiroglyph]

Wish that site was for real, at those prices I'd buy a couple of 040 & 030 boards for some of my old miggies...

(It's a lot cheaper than Ebay...)

SoftHut did have some of them in stock as of a few weeks ago and they are a little cheaper than listed on the link above.

GVP Typhoon A1200 030 40MHz Accelerator $169.00
A4060DT - 060 50MHz with SCSI II Interface $445.00
TekMagic A2000 060/50MHz Combo   $479.95

They are new-ish (refurbs I think) but the prices are pretty good considering.

[Heiroglyph]

You pretty much have to call him although you can order online if you have confirmed that it is in stock.

Last time I ordered (a few weeks ago) he said that the items on the front page are all he tries to keep up to date.

[Heiroglyph]

BTW, he does still have brand new 4000T's in stock with 040's and optionally the GVP 060's at additional cost.

He knows the guy that bought out the remaining parts inventory and he's still building new machines from them.

[Heiroglyph]

I am also pretty sure that ARM does not have the same amount of development money that Intel/AMD does.

Arm is probably the best "second" CPU bet for the future, behind x86.

The problem is that so was PPC back when it was chosen.

I really see the Atom-type CPU's eventually taking over the market that many Arm's currently hold in mobile devices, then you're back to x86 again.

Arm's slower than those aren't really useful to us.