Hi,
Some of you may remember a post of mine from last week, saying that I'd been away from the Amiga scene for 12 years. Well, since then, I've bought a second hand towered A1200 with Apollo 040 accelerator, and am just beginning to get my head around the Amiga again, not to mention WB3.0!
I've done a lot of catching up, but still have a long way to go. So, forgive me for all the questions, and please correct any errors in my understanding...
1) PPC - The Power PC cards are accelerator cards for the A1200 (and A4000?) right. On board these cards are Motorola chips later down the development line than the 68k series of processors? These chips were also used by Macs?
2) Assuming 1) above is roughly correct, is there any other difference in PPC architecture from the A1200? What devices do they support. (For example, using PC soundcards, graphics cards, SCSI devices). How much memory do they support?
3) How much backward compatability do they afford, and what OS runs on these boards?
4)Now, here's the bit I really want to know about:
The AmigaONE. I have read some stuff on the Eyetech site, but am not really any the wiser. The G3/G4 processors are used by Macs right? (who manufactures them BTW, Motorola?) Now what is the architecture like, and if it is a big step away from the classic Amiga architecture, what makes it an Amiga?
I understand that there is an A1200 port on the A1, and this will allow backwards compatability, by being able to access the old architecture. Is this essentially the same as the 'Siamese System' idea, or nothing like it?
Please point me to any relevant sites if you can. It's just it'll take me a LOT of reading to catch up. Hey, I'm a PC defector (well that's what we HAD to use at Uni!) who's coming back!
Any help appreciated!
Many thanks!
Oh P.S. I'd rather you pitch the tech stuff below me rather than over my head. It's been a long time!
;-)
