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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 95 21:53 BST-1
From: [e-mail] (Gary Fenton)
Subject: DraCO's RISC chip for Amiga
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Most of you already know about MacroSystem's DraCO computer which is based
around the 68060 CPU running AmigaDOS 3.1. They have a working RISC CPU on
a Zorro III card which is a DEC Alpha chip running at 450 MIPS! Can't wait
to check it out with Lightwave! Oh, Lightwave will have to be patched to
use the RISC library that MacroSystem are writing if anyone wants to
benifit from the faster processor.

Phase 5 in Germany are working on a DPS card for the Amiga. It's got a DPS
which can hit 2 billion instructions per seconds (2 BIPS!) and a RISC CPU
turning over 50 MIPS and an FPU doing 100 MIPS (it says MIPS not MFLOPS -
maybe a typo?) It can encode and decode MPEG and JPEG video in real time
and render 750,000 gouraud shaded polygons per second! Well knock me down
with $150 LW upgrade! :-)

As long as developers keep developing for the Amiga it'll never die!
(Notice that both these companies are German, as are Escom.)


Gary F.