Features
Features include:
- Standard ATX motherboard and Nvidia video card
- Intel XScale 80321 600 MHz 32-bit processor
- Two 64-bit and two 32-bit PCI slots
- RISC OS version 5 in hardware ROM module, using 32bit addressing mode.
- Support for the Linux operating system
- Support for "Legacy" Acorn DEBI expansion cards.
- USB interfacing
It was the first time substantial changes had been made to the platform since the release of the Risc PC was introduced in 1993. All interim machines had been built on the ARM7500 System-on-a-chip which was widely regarded as a single-chip Risc PC. (It incorporated the memory controller, video, sound, IO and CPU logic of a Risc PC, leaving only memory and disc interfacing to be added.)
The presence of PCI and USB capabilities, as well as the retained "podule" bus attracted comparisons to Acorn's aborted Phoebe PC, however such comparisons should be tempered with Phoebe's proposed feature set, which retained VIDC and 26-bit mode, and although Phoebe was intended to be capable of SMP configurations, its proposed shipping configuration had been for one SA110 CPU.
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