At 10:14 -0700 04/04/2003, Neil wrote: >Jeff thanks for the good news but what is a "Power Surge" machine? Another >term for a PPC? Just curious.
Power Surge is Apple's name for the family of machines built around the Hammerhead memory controller. This family includes three generations of Apple machines and many clones. The Power Surge machines are: 7500, 8500, 9500 (1st Gen.), 7600, 8600, 9600 (2nd Gen.), 7300, 8600 Enhanced, 9600 Enhanced (3rd. Gen.), PowerTower Pro, PowerWave, S900, J700 and Daystar Genesis (clones). All of the above machines are built on the same architecture, have the same type of CPU slot (except the Enhanced (AKA Kansas) 8600 and 9600) and use essentially the same ROM. I've taken the ROM off of the Kansas motherboards and installed it in earlier machines and it works fine, which is what one would expect given that the hardware is almost identical. The Catalyst family is closely related but is built around the Platinum memory controller instead of the Hammerhead. But it uses the same Bandit chip for PCI slot control and the Grand Central chip for interrupt handling as the Power Surge Family. The Catalyst family included just the 7200 from Apple, but in several revisions, oh, and the 8200 in the European market, and from Power Computing, the PowerCurve, PowerCenter, PowerTower (no Pro), and PowerCenter Pro. Strangely, the Kansas ROMs work in the Catalyst family as well. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
