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- From: Iain Bennett <I.Bennett@uea.ac.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: What's happening to the Amiga!
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 22:27:04 GMT
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- qmnmaren@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au (Nickolas Marentes) wrote:
- >to my beige colored Commodore 1942 monitor. Does this mean that I would
- >have to
- >buy a new Black monitor to match? Kinda expensive isn't it?
-
- I think that would be a bit immature. Just use it. I'm planning on using
- my NEC 3D with whatever computer I get next.
-
- Hey! The Blue SGI Indy I use has a beige monitor! Woopie.
-
- >I also hear that it includes a PC I/O chip to improve I/O. What happens
- >to the I/O on
- >the PAULA chip. Do we end up paying for this PC style design duplication?
-
- It is actually better because you COULD have a bit of parallel processing
- there.
-
- >also use a PC video chip on the new RISC based Amigas?
-
- It makes sense. PC video chips are way better than AA, although AA is not bad.
- From there Amiga can extend the VGA chips to do better things.
-
- >Jay Miner would roar in his grave if he knew what was happening to his Amiga.
-
- I don't think so. It costs a lot of money to make proprietary equipment. Who
- else uses the Zorro type bus?
-
- --
- Cheerio!
-
- -Iain
-
- Iain Bennett I.Bennett@uea.ac.uk
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