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- From: leon@esrac.ele.tue.nl (Leon Woestenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Traditional Amiga is dying.
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 13:49:00 GMT
- Organization: Eindhoven Student Radio Amateur Club
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- Nickolas Marentes (qmnmaren@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au) wrote:
- : (via Matsushita) the new 3DO Mark II. Fully 64bit with some
- : very impressive custom chips (look in the 3DO newsgroup and
- : Web Pages). If they could release an add-on to upgrade the 3DO
- : into a full computer system, then the spirit of the original
- : Amiga will be returned. These new chips will not only make the
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- Please note that the above situation equals that of the Amiga about ten
- years ago; and see what has become of it... Keeping up to pace the
- custom chips is a very hard job to do, as Commodore-Amiga knows.
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- The common PowerPC platform is the way to go. The strength the Amiga will
- have in the future, is it's superb responsive operating system. And on the
- graphics and audio side, is has the power to drive those video and sound-
- cards to their maximum performance, where other (PPCP) computers will
- have a bottleneck somewhere, someplace. (Exept for Windows, where one cannot
- find the bottleneck, as they seem to be all over the place).
-
- : current crop of Pentium PC's and PC multimedia chips look
- : feeble but even the Sony Playstation will look sick in
- : comparison.
-
- Fine, but what happens with the 3DO as a real computer in say 5 years? The
- same Amiga story?
-
- : This is only an idea but unless AT really do something with
- : the Amiga that will propell it way past the competition, I'm
- : afraid the only losers will be us dedicated and true Amiga
- : followers.
- A PowerAmiga will be better then a Power#?, because of the OS and the tight
- interaction with the hardware. And I think there is work done to 'propell'
- the Amiga in that direction, if not 'blast' :-)
-
- Hang tight, Leon.
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