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- From: 02jmfelton@bsuvc.bsu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: What can we do with CHRP?
- Date: 14 Apr 96 16:49:41 -0500
- Organization: Ball State University
- Message-ID: <1996Apr14.164941.1@bsuvc.bsu.edu>
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- In article <4kfb6e$c0p@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>, mjesus@ix.netcom.com (Manuel Jesus Jr. ) writes:
- >
- >>While i have everyones attention, has anyone read Dvorak's column in
- >>the April 23rd issue of PC Magazine? If he's right it does not bode
- >>well for the amiga.
- >
- > Since I don't read PC Magazine, could you please tell us what Dvorak
- > is ranting about this time? I'm really interested in this if it's
- > Amiga,CHRP,PowerMac related. Hmmm... "Dvorak" isn't that a keyboard
- > layout that nobody uses ;)
- >
- > Thanks,
- > MJesus
- Well, First of all I was wrong: It is the Dvorak column in the April
- 9th issue. Inside Trak. In short he rambles about the MMX extensions
- that Intel is planning to add to the Pentium chips. This is the NSP
- (Native Signal Processing) stuff that has been talked about recently.
- Translated to english this would mean that PCs wouldn't need seperate
- sound and video boards because the cpu would be able to do it all. The
- only people that would buy such devices would be those that want
- exceptional performance or some other special need. Apparently the
- PowerPC does a form of NSP right now but the MMX extensions would be
- 4x the speed of the powerpc. This is what dvorak claims. It is my
- humble oppinnion that NSP will never fly. Why put even more pressure
- on a cpu when you already need a 100Mhz and 8 megs of ram to get
- exceptible performance out of win95? Dvorak seems to think that NSP
- will be able to carry the PC into the desktop video market and other
- areas that it hasn't been able to get into so far. Areas that are the
- dominion of the Amiga and the Mac. I could be wrong but I think Dvorak
- missed the boat with this prediction. Only time will tell. I've been
- told that Dvorak uses a video toaster system. I have no proof though.
- Okay, I'm officially rambling...I'm just interested in some other
- peoples oppinnions.
- joseph felton
- 02jmfelton@bsuvc.bsu.edu
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