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- Path: news.gate.net!nostromo!damocles
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: The ESCOM sale of AT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Nostromo
- From: damocles@nostromo.gate.net (Randy Vice)
- Message-ID: <damocles.3mcz@nostromo.gate.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 96 01:57:06 EST
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- On Sun 14-Apr-1996 12:06a, K. C. Lee wrote:
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- <snip>
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- KL> On the other hand Viscorp has its priority in using custom chip set.
-
- Yeah, it's a great chipset, just too old for today's computer systems.
-
- KL> AT's previous direction seems to be heading away from custom chip set.
-
- Due to cost of R&D and cost associated on making small batches of custom
- chips, they had to.
-
- KL> Would
- KL> Viscorp slow AT moving towards commodity SVGA graphics chips?
-
- If the CPU gets dirt cheap to power the SVGA stuff, they might. You have to
- balance out performance with cost. That is where AGA kicks butt since it
- doesn't need an expensive CPU to power it. SVGA on the other hand....
-
- How would
- KL> AT's relationship with Scalar be affected ?
-
- Dunno.
-
- KL> What's Viscorp's reasoning of buying the whole thing ? Is it because they
- KL> want full control of the technology (ie no one else can use it) and secure
- KL> the
- KL> source of custom chips ? I guess we'll find out.
-
- Since they are *all* Amiga freaks in that company, I don't have all that much
- worry. When Carl Sassenrath. of VIScom says in Email he doesn't want to kill
- the Amiga but make "... one Killer Amiga", I have little fear our favorite
- system is going to be around for a long long time to come.
-
- : damocles@nostromo.gate.net : Bruce Morrow,a man before and after his time:
- :"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the :
- :United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." :
- : - Samual Adams : Morrow Project Recon: The Expendible Ones :
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