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- From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel)
- Subject: Re: What's happening to the Amiga!
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Reply-To: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
- References: <4j8e97$81t@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au>
- Message-ID: <peterk.0m86@combo.ganesha.com>
- Date: 30 Mar 96 15:05:59 MEZ
- Organization: Private Site
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- In article <4j8e97$81t@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au> qmnmaren@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au (Nickolas Marentes) writes:
- >This new 'Walker' thingy
- >
- >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.
-
- It's still there as a usable alternative for backwards compatibility.
-
- > Do we end up paying for this PC style design duplication?
-
- Yes and no. Yes, because it's an additional chip, no, because it also
- saves us and you money, in that we can use cheaper drives (because they
- are standard ones) and more peripherals directly without additional
- hardware adapters (read kludges).
-
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