Re: BeBox/PowerAmiga

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From: Albert Koellner
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 16:45

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Brendan Langoulant<brendanl@yarrow.wt.com.au> writes:
> 
> >> >- the Amiga needs a native PowerPC system, so it could benefit from a 
> >> >cooperation with Be Inc.
> 
> Why Be in specific?  Why not just make the machine CHRP/PREP compliant?
> 
Because there are at least three specific points of the BeBox which could be 
attractive for AT: multiprocessing, sound capabilities, and the rich I/Os.

The hardware is ready and tested, and it will be also CHRP (now PPCP) 
compliant, but all the "multimedia"-functionalities make it more useful for AT 
than any other CHRP-compliant box.

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From: Albert Koellner <albert.koellner@aut.alcatel.at>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: BeBox/PowerAmiga
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 95 09:45:13 PDT
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