16.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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G4: A few ammount of Pegasos I April 2 G4 available
The first processor card to upgrade the Pegasos is available now.
Thank to the flexible, upgradable and open architecture of the Pegasos Genesi
offers a G4 upgrade which will lead you to the next step of computer experience.
For the Pegasos are
processor cards
with a Motorola 7447 CPU which operates with 1 GHz and more available now.
The 7447 is the newest PowerPC processor of the fourth generation
(G4) by Motorola, which offers an increased performance compared to the recent
processor generation (G3). Additionally to a bigger cache the
7447 offers more pipelines, an improved front side bus (FSB) and, most important, an SIMD unit called Altivec.
Altivec offers a special on-chip vector engine, which is capable of operate more than one Gflops (one billion
floating point operations per second) but is still affordable for an average user.
There is a few ammount of Pegasos-1/April-2 boards with this G4 card available for
EUR 499.- (excl. VAT). If you are interested in one of these boards please feel free to contact
bbrv@genesi.lu.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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