For a time there was talk about a 32-bit PCI Amiga board that would plug into your favourite Intel Pentium or AMD Box, however, after reading the bit about Hitachi and their attempts to make a dual boot box, I can kind of see why this never came to pass... Really unfortunate, as this would've been super happening to have the higher bus speeds and a really decent math coprocessor (the Intel Chip). Used to be offered by Siamese Systems in the UK http://www.siamese.co.uk Miss my video toaster/flyer system, but such is life...
Rather amazed that Amiga didn't get together with AMD after DEC went under (the Amiga running the DEC Alpha 433 at one computer show was absolutely unbelievable, think that it was also running the AGA chipset for video, but had gobbs o' RAM, too).
Have to wonder if these newer PPC machines you're talking about are going to be running modified PPC Processors, much akin to the older offerings of the Amiga line up relative to the Motorola chips... Have any information on this and/or a release date?
Who knows, maybe Apple might end up saving itself in such a dual boot system... Don't dig their current video editing suites...
Will that be in PAL or NTSC?
Didn't Stanley Jordan do this with an iBook?
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Could be totally off, but the last few times I saw Stanley Jordan playing live (Annapolis, MD) he had a set of fairly nifty tones that were close to be being a representation of the orbits of the different planets in our solar system, though at the time, he didn't have any settings for the asteroid fields between Mars and Jupiter. Want to say that he did everything in apl and his program was only by relative period of rotation (think that he included mass, but that would be a better question for him to answer).
Anywho, it was lots of fun to go to a Jazz concert and hear a little spacey music.
Have to agree with you, a cluster or three in the office and another in the car over a wireless system (forgetting an ugly Cell Phone Bill) would be majourly happening, especially if there was a external SCSI Option on 'em. I was just thinking that it'd be a bit more happening to be used as a better media for the stereo system. LOL!
Not sure if they'd be hardened enough to handle a soldier bouncing around with one strapped to his/her back or thigh... Have to agree that IBM may have to do a bit of fancy design work on making the base unit upgradeable to the point where other than businesses or other special use/interest markets might be interested in this machine.
On the flip side, for a few other markets out there and several additional modifications to the base system (I know that medical one was already mentioned within a parallel thread or two) are a few other uses for this idea:
Be a great thing with a goodly battery life and a touch screen (colour preferably) LCD screen for nurses or doctors for that matter... Palm already has EPocrates, which is an awesome app, however with more storage space, I'm sure that the makers of EPocrates could come up with a Winders version of their software for the Palm.
Another thing is that with the Winders XP base, that if it was loaded with Office, it'd allow for better and hopefully more legible notes... In this case, it'd never leave the hospital, but at the same token it would allow, hopefully for a better standard than what is currently available...
Another use for it would be a great MP3 recorder/player, again depending upon modifications to the origional unit... Especially if it had a few audio ins and outs on a side and also depending upon the chip sets used for the audio portions of this computer. If anything, it might be a better solution than the other HDD MP3 recorder/players out there. Granted this one you would also be able to take a few notes in class or mayhap do a bit more decomposition when the muse strikes...
The other side of the above is to turn it into a very portable 4 to 8 channel (again with the additional dongles) recording device for the home or hobbyist. Again, dependent upon how expensive these machines will be presented to the public.
Another awesome use for this little beastie would be in those places where space is at a premium (this can also be the home, whether domestic or abroad) and a decent "work" computer is necessary.
Again, I'm getting a little ahead of myself in not knowing more information about this alpha and what they're (IBM) going to include on the dongle to get to the necessary peripherals (keyboard, rodent, db9 serial, db25 parallel, db15 video, female rca, USB ports, and the all important VHDCI68 female connection)...
Another point that has a bit of relevance is that this almost seems like another PDA and here, I'm also in a bit of agreement, and it'll definitely be up to the marketing people of IBM to come up with many uses/mod's for their new box along with suppourt for the various spin-off technologies that this may bring for their company.
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For a time there was talk about a 32-bit PCI Amiga board that would plug into your favourite Intel Pentium or AMD Box, however, after reading the bit about Hitachi and their attempts to make a dual boot box, I can kind of see why this never came to pass... Really unfortunate, as this would've been super happening to have the higher bus speeds and a really decent math coprocessor (the Intel Chip). Used to be offered by Siamese Systems in the UK http://www.siamese.co.uk
Miss my video toaster/flyer system, but such is life...
Rather amazed that Amiga didn't get together with AMD after DEC went under (the Amiga running the DEC Alpha 433 at one computer show was absolutely unbelievable, think that it was also running the AGA chipset for video, but had gobbs o' RAM, too).
Have to wonder if these newer PPC machines you're talking about are going to be running modified PPC Processors, much akin to the older offerings of the Amiga line up relative to the Motorola chips... Have any information on this and/or a release date?
Who knows, maybe Apple might end up saving itself in such a dual boot system... Don't dig their current video editing suites...
Will that be in PAL or NTSC?
Could be totally off, but the last few times I saw Stanley Jordan playing live (Annapolis, MD) he had a set of fairly nifty tones that were close to be being a representation of the orbits of the different planets in our solar system, though at the time, he didn't have any settings for the asteroid fields between Mars and Jupiter. Want to say that he did everything in apl and his program was only by relative period of rotation (think that he included mass, but that would be a better question for him to answer).
Anywho, it was lots of fun to go to a Jazz concert and hear a little spacey music.
Peas out.
Totally spazzed this one and forgot the other important connection; the ethernet connection.
Sorry all!
Have to agree with you, a cluster or three in the office and another in the car over a wireless system (forgetting an ugly Cell Phone Bill) would be majourly happening, especially if there was a external SCSI Option on 'em. I was just thinking that it'd be a bit more happening to be used as a better media for the stereo system. LOL!
Not sure if they'd be hardened enough to handle a soldier bouncing around with one strapped to his/her back or thigh... Have to agree that IBM may have to do a bit of fancy design work on making the base unit upgradeable to the point where other than businesses or other special use/interest markets might be interested in this machine.
On the flip side, for a few other markets out there and several additional modifications to the base system (I know that medical one was already mentioned within a parallel thread or two) are a few other uses for this idea:
Be a great thing with a goodly battery life and a touch screen (colour preferably) LCD screen for nurses or doctors for that matter... Palm already has EPocrates, which is an awesome app, however with more storage space, I'm sure that the makers of EPocrates could come up with a Winders version of their software for the Palm.
Another thing is that with the Winders XP base, that if it was loaded with Office, it'd allow for better and hopefully more legible notes... In this case, it'd never leave the hospital, but at the same token it would allow, hopefully for a better standard than what is currently available...
Another use for it would be a great MP3 recorder/player, again depending upon modifications to the origional unit... Especially if it had a few audio ins and outs on a side and also depending upon the chip sets used for the audio portions of this computer. If anything, it might be a better solution than the other HDD MP3 recorder/players out there. Granted this one you would also be able to take a few notes in class or mayhap do a bit more decomposition when the muse strikes...
The other side of the above is to turn it into a very portable 4 to 8 channel (again with the additional dongles) recording device for the home or hobbyist. Again, dependent upon how expensive these machines will be presented to the public.
Another awesome use for this little beastie would be in those places where space is at a premium (this can also be the home, whether domestic or abroad) and a decent "work" computer is necessary.
Again, I'm getting a little ahead of myself in not knowing more information about this alpha and what they're (IBM) going to include on the dongle to get to the necessary peripherals (keyboard, rodent, db9 serial, db25 parallel, db15 video, female rca, USB ports, and the all important VHDCI68 female connection)...
Another point that has a bit of relevance is that this almost seems like another PDA and here, I'm also in a bit of agreement, and it'll definitely be up to the marketing people of IBM to come up with many uses/mod's for their new box along with suppourt for the various spin-off technologies that this may bring for their company.
"And I will call it, 'mini-me...'"