Castle Technology gave more information on the recently announced Iyonix PC 32-bit system to a packed audience at the RISC OS SE Show last Saturday. For those unable to visit this event some of the main details are:
Entirely new motherboard design with:
80321 XScale processor
GeForce2 MX400 video card
Up to 1GB DDR RAM
32-bit and 64-bit PCI expansion
H-speed podule bus
UDMA 100 Hard drive
MicroATX mid tower design with:
5.25" and 3.5" drive bays
2 + 2 USB ports
2 Serial ports
RISC OS 5 with RISC OS 4.02 feature set plus:
Long file names
USB printing
Unicode support
OS in Flash ROM
Many applications have been converted to work in 32-bits, for example Fireworkz, Ovation Pro, Draw, Paint & Edit to name just a few.
Speed increases range from 2.0x (podule bus) to 30.0x (expansion bus)
If you were unable to attend this show then a full summary of Castle's presentation on the Iyonix PC can be found at the Acorn Cybervillage at http://acorn.cybervillage.co.uk/
To win an Iyonix PC for yourself please register on the Iyonix PC web site at http://www.iyonix.com/
Mike Williams on behalf of Castle Technology
akalat@kbnet.co.uk