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Re: New custom based Amiga, Whats your dream Amiga then?
« on: March 06, 2003, 04:09:30 PM »
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itix wrote:
Isn't AmigaOne some kind of computer with custom chip set? Today everything which is non-X86 could be considered being custom.


That would be an incorrect assertion.  The "new" "Amiga" uses industry standard BIOS (some tweaking by Hyperion aside), board logic, and system buses.  It is, in effect, a PC system board with a BIOS and onboard logic configured to utilize a PPC CPU instead of an x86 (Intel, AMD, Via-Cyrix etc.)

So in the over all the new mainboards use commodity parts instead of parts built specifically for that mainboard.

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