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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: walker case extrapolation
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- Date: 7 Apr 1996 20:17:41 GMT
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- George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : >Custom chips in one Chip. Will make system cheaper.
-
- : Really?
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- Yes.
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- : Will this affect compatability with recent software? Going
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- With games, nothing would surprise me. :)
-
- : through the OS to use the chips will be fine I assume but would ie: games
- : banging the hardware directly not look for seperate chips instead of one
- : or does it matter?
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- It wouldn't matter. I would assume that it would be hardware register level
- compatible, might be faster though and if timing matters it might affect
- extremely poorly written software.
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- : >Harddrive and CD ROM Standard.
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- : >This IS an improvement. Maybe not that much like we wanted, but we have to
- : >consider what is possible in some time.
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- : As long as it is compatible.
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- With what?
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- Regards,
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- BM
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