< computer > Phase 5 's Amiga clone, announced on 1998-03-10. The pre\box will have a processor card with four PowerPC processors running in parallel. The processors will range from four 200 MHz PPC604e chips to four 300MHz PPC750 chips. It will have a Voodoo2 video graphics card , as well as a custom video chip working in concert, with 8 MB of video ram . It will run Amiga OS 3.1 (or higher if Gateway 2000 delivers the next upgrade before its release) and have Motorola 68000 CPU emulation in software.
Other features include EIDE , Ultra Wide SCSI-II , PCI , Ethernet and DIMM sockets. Extra RAM, hard disks and CD-ROM will be available. The initial specification will probably be 32MB RAM, 32-speed CD and 4GB hard disk in an ATX minitower . Systems should start at about $2000 for four parallel 200 MHZ CPUs and be available at the end of 1998.
Full press release .
(1998-07-29)