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- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 23:58:41 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: AgaEXTENDER: A device to allow fas
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4olf@grafix.xs4all.nl>
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- In a message of 22 Mar 96 Fabio Bizzetti wrote to All:
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- FB> If the next Amiga generation will use SVGA GfxChips and PowerPC CPU,
- FB> then I believe that professional developers will find much more
- FB> convenient to learn to program the same GfxChip (SVGA) and a new CPU
- FB> (80686 instead of PowerPC) because 80686 will have a solid market,
- while
- FB> PowerAmiga will not have it, still being both simple PC clones.
-
- This is basically saying AT should turn the Amiga into an Intel PC
- clone. The day AT does such a thing, I'll be off. It's bad
- enough that the CBM demise cost us the development of new
- custom chips (although I doubt they'd be much use in
- this day and age since about every PC uses specialised
- chips too..).
-
- FB> I hope that nobody will forget what the Amiga really was,
-
- Certainly not a run-of-the-mill x86 clone. I'm glad AT took a
- different route. The PowerPC chips are both powerful and
- reasonably future-proof through IBM/Motorola support and
- multiprocessing abilities. And to keep in with tradition,
- there's at least a hint of "Motorola" involved.
-
- All IMHO of course.
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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