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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 17:47:07 GMT
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- >Fabio Bizzetti (bizzetti@mbox.vol.it) wrote:
- >:
- >: >Babbage (babbage@dmu.ac.uk) wrote:
- >: >:
- >: >: > > Well, still containing AGA would cost nothing and make OS-port
- >: >: > > easier imho.
- >: >: whats the cost of an AGA chipset?
- >: >: Something like 3$ to produce isnt it?
- >:
- >: >I don't think so. Last I heard (when C= was still around) AGA cost $50
- >: >for the chips alone. I imagine it's more expensive than that now.
- >: >ie there are probably better SVGA chipsets for the same price.
- >: >
- >: >Reg Martin
- >:
- >: If you bought them from Commodore to repair your faulty Amigas, then sure.
- >: CBM greedness made them *seem* expensive in this case.
-
- >No. I heard it straight from Hazy that the chips cost about $50 to
- >_manufacture_. This was right around the time that the 1200 came out...
-
- >Reg Martin
-
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- 50 US$ was to re-build them in the '80s NMOS technology to make the "new" A1200
- in a rush.
-
- I heard they're working "to make AGA consume less", this means to use the
- modern and much cheaper 0.8/0.5 micron technology, that besides being much
- cheaper, it allows also much better speed and a single chip solution (Alice,
- Lisa,Paula into one chip).
-
- The re-built of the old NMOS process for the rush to produce A1200's is over
- now, I hope (!?), because there's no need to not make them in the technology
- currently everywhere available and cheap.
-
- As far as I know, the whole AGA chipset could cost some US$ today (max 10).
-
- Regards.
-
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