Draft PowerUp
the next generation Amig.
music by DNK
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Firma Phase 5 to announce the launch of a new
Amigi model in 1997.
City Oberyuzel, may 1996.
In accordance with planami firm Phase5,
nahodyascheysya in Oberyuzele about
Frankfurta, later in 1997 stanet turning point for all lovers
of Amigi. HOW TO dalneyshee logical continuation of the design
for project PowerUp, which podrazumevaet razrabotku
RISC-akseleratorov for existing models Amig, kompaniya obyavila
that during the first six months of 1997. will vypuschena
novaya kompyuternaya sistema, baziruyuschayasya nA OS Amigi.
Eta sistema produce a complete revolution nA current computer
market. "We will prodolzhat support platformy Amiga computers
and any sredstvami sposobami because we were among the first
polzovateley Amig and prekrasno aware of the possibilities and
preimuschestvah this magnificent and with nothing sravnimoy
system "- says Wolf Dietrich, the manager generalny Phase5.
"Odnako, nastupilo time radikalnogo skachka technological
advance, Amigu to bring into line with the vision of the
concept nashim kompyutera XXI th century. By sozhaleniyu, we
have seen too many polovinchatyh solutions za recent years. "
According to the Technical Directors Company
Phase5 Dzheralda Gardy should sdelat strong shag forward
sravneniyu with the status quo order
realizovat to new approaches:
"Concepts, osnovannye nA standartnyh,
nabivshih nauseam podhodah mira PC, et al
with them, not nikogda davali and dadut dazhe
those opportunities that predostavlyala
Model A1000 for over 12 years nazad. "In accordance with this
philosophy, the new computer will osnovan nA
vysokointegrirovannom spetsprotsessornom nabore which when
tsentralnym element of the system will provide nevidannye
hitherto harakteristiki new Amigi, daleko superior analogichnye
harakteristiki any of the currently existing computer platform
wide use: "We namereny prodemonstrirovat opportunities, which
will be rezultatom protivopostavleniya nashey policy blinkered
niggling, the pressures now nA massovom market IBM-compatible
computers, kogda radikalnogo any attempt to improve the system
brings in sacrifice the desire to save date every zatrachenny
nA razrabotku and production dollar, daby provide low price and
selling massovy iznachalno defective products - prodolzhaet
Dzherald Garda. Nevziraya nA vysheskazannoe should zametit that
buduschaya Amiga does not stanet nedosyagaemoy dream for
polzovateley, ogranichennyh in sredstvah. By slovam Volfa
Ditriha - "Ha osnovanii nashih predvaritelnyh raschetov
produkta future prices, we are able to zayavit an exceptionally
low cost, kotoraya vsegda harakterizovala nashey products of
companies belonging to amigovskoy platforme. Vysochayshaya
degree integratsii realizatsiya components and innovative
approaches to the construction of the system Architecture can
achieve nevidannoy performance of the new system. Being
osnovannym nA tsentralnoi processor PowerPC, a new computer, in
addition to speed raboty samogo protsessora, predlagaet
apparatnuyu support multimedia (in chastnosti, MPEG) functions
and generatsii dimensional izobrazheny. Naiminimalneyshaya
konfiguratsiya system rabotaet razresheniem to 1600x1200 at
24-bit color and kadrovoy chastote 72 Hz. At the same
time apparatnaya chast pooderzhivaet a wide range of functions
spetsializirovannyh by obrabotke izobrazheniya, zvuka and
sozdaniya razlichnyh effects. There are inputs and outputs
kanalov stereo with CD-kachestvom zvuka compatible for
videostandartam genlokam and 24-bit video and FBAS / S-VHS
video input. In addition to conventional interfaces, the
controller has sistema takzhe Fast SCSI-II, and ISDN-network
interfaces. With all these features, sistema,
imeyuschaya 120 megagertsovy CPU PPC 603e, 1916
Mbayt The memory, SCSI-HDD with 1 Gb
and quad-speed CD-ROM, will be
retail value of no more than 3000 DM
(1400 pounds and $ 2000 respectively)
As prices nA nA Hardware Today
, ZF> According to the latest extant data
- Now $ 1000.
(Napomnim that Daily price nA components has a constant
downward trend). "We nadeemsya that maksimum year after
nastoyaschego zayavleniya be able to offer
system taktovoy chastotoy protsessora from
150 to 166 MHz "- prodolzhaet Wolf Dietrich:" What kasaetsya
performance, in "pure processor" calculus ona consistent
protsessoram Pentium with the same taktovymi chastotami.
Odnako, realnaya speed raboty with graficheskimi obektami
will nesravnimo higher than the TA, which
dostignuta nA PC-platforme and sorevnovatsya them here with Us
krayne be difficult. We will postavlyat and more powerful nA
system 604e processor 150 MHz costs 4000 DM (1800 pounds and $
2700 respectively). NA despite the fact that Phase5
utverzhdaet of zavershenii razrabotki concept of a new
system, there is no possibility opublikovat informatsiyu more
about her. "At the moment we nastoyaschy zanimaemsya voprosami
zaschity avtorskih prav nA those new system solutions, which
are abundant in sozdavaemaya sistema. Therefore, danny time
We can not elaborate on the technical harakteristiki nashego
produkta. HOW PROTECTION will only patentnaya obespechena
corresponding dannye will immediately predany oglaske "- says
Dzherald Garda:" For this reason polnaya spetsifikatsiya system
will not opublikovana ranee kontsa June. "Porazhaet apparatura
not only but also ensuring programmnoe sozdavaemoy system
kotoraya postavlyatsya will be an entirely new operatsionnoy
system skompilirovannoy nA native mashinnom code RISC-processor
PowerPC, and Nevertheless, sohranyayuschey full compatibility
with the third version of the OS Amigi. Dalee Dzherald Garda
commented: "Since we are already in full razrabatyvaem
PowerPC-orientirovannoe kernel is a library rasshireny and
PowerPC-version CyberGraphX nashey in the context of future
machinery, logically opravdannym shagom is takzhe radikalnoe
improvement of other system components. Compatibility with the
third version of the OS daet polzovatelyam opportunity
prodolzhat ispolzovat exists for this release
OS programmnoe software, rabotayuschee with
bibliotekami CyberGraphX; at the same time
razrabotchiki who are already implementing
massirovannuyu support standarta CyberGraphX, will have the
opportunity prodolzhat razvivat their products and for the new
system without any problems. Therefore, y polzovateley Amig
transition nA new system should occur absolyutno painlessly. In
addition, a wide otkryvaetsya way to improve the entire
radikalnogo programmnogo structure of the system software and a
sharp rasshireniya spektra used system functions. "In addition
to supporting 24-bit color palitry already stavshey standartom
de-facto blagodarya CyberGraphX, Dzherald Garda takzhe
upominaet coming standart CyberGraphX 3D and
multimedia user interface as a possible primera. Takzhe coming
obschaya optimizatsiya system and revision of the concept
polzovatelskogo interfeysa according to the latest
funktsionalnymi and aesthetic views in these oblastyah: "During
many years of operating Amigi yavlyala a kontseptualnuyu
realizatsiyu ideas rassmatrivayutsya many ekspertami HOW
revolutionary. This znachit that pereprogrammirovanie OS will
allow more complete raskryt zalozhenny it kolossalny
potentsial and sozdat chrezvychayno powerful and
naisovremenneyshuyu operatsionnuyu system.
Razumeetsya, nasha sistema be otkryta
to emulate in terms of takih platform,
HOW MacOs or X-Windows. Kstati, existing nA these platformah
discussion so-called operatsionnyh new systems tipa, according
to is essentially a more market-trick
rather than searching realisticheskoy alternativy
tam existing system solutions. "Otrazheniem determination
namereny Phase5 by sozdaniyu new produkta are finansovyh
volumes of investments in its razrabotku: "By mid-1997 Year
period the volume of investment will be calculated in
semiznachnyh tsifrah - Wolf Dietrich said: "I nas
have the know-hau, komanda razrabotchikov, technical and
oborudovanie podderzhka third firms (especially firms
Motorola), a takzhe finansovye required resources for
successful implementation of zadumannogo. The only thing we
zhelali - is massovoy support nashih nachinany with
the entire amigovskogo soobschestva. Nashe dostatochno rannee
zayavlenie about the upcoming project, not least vyzvano
ozhidaniem priznaniya nashey pravoty with hand predannyh
polzovateley Amig. In After all, only for them delaetsya
and radi them. Therefore, we prizyvaem amizhnikov all mira
pisat Us, posylat faksy or e-mail nA spetsialno
for this purpose by address:
aproject@phase5.de. Date every positive
response nA nashu initsiativu will strengthen
nashu confidence pravilnosti izbrannogo kursa. "
