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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
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- From: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- Subject: Re: A3000+ Kickstart 3.1 ???
- Sender: news@scala.scala.com (Usenet administrator)
- Message-ID: <1996Jan3.201950.9273@scala.scala.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 20:19:50 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- References: <nidi.3257@stargazer.aare.chnet.ch> <149216@cup.portal.com>
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- Organization: Scala Computer Television, US Research Center
-
- >>THERE ARE NO A3000 With AGA , that is for sure,
-
- >WRONG! There were a few made, ask Dave Haynie
-
- The A3000+ was an "A3000 with AGA". This had been planned as the
- original followup to the A3000. It started out as the test system for
- the AA chips (first working in February, 1991), and incorporated the
- AT&T DSP3210 as a coprocessor for audio, fast floating point (FFT,
- DCT, whatever), compression, and other cool multimedia-oriented
- stuff. Due to a chip bug, only two working DSP systems were built (I
- hacked around the problem, in the Rev 4 DMAC's DSP control logic,
- but it wasn't pretty). About 50 total Rev 2 A3000+ systems were
- built.
-
- Actually, by the Rev 2 PCB, the project had officially been cancelled,
- but they needed development systems for AA projects in and out of C=,
- so we did get to make these few. They fit perfectly in an A3000 case.
- The plan was to go to '040, but of course once the project was
- cancelled, that never happened.
-
- Dave Haynie | ex-Commodore Engineering | for DiskSalv 3 &
- Sr. Systems Engineer | Hardwired Media Company | "The Deathbed Vigil"
- Scala Inc., US R&D | Ki No Kawa Aikido | info@iam.com
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- "Feeling ... Pretty ... Psyched" -R.E.M.
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