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- Path: coranto.ucs.mun.ca!gnoel
- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 00:47:01 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4d9jq5$4oo@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960108.77A4120.F5EA@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> <4d3ksb$udh@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4d3uvr$bni@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4d8pu9$tp4@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Summary: Waste of a reply
- Keywords: You belong on .advocacy
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- In article <4d8pu9$tp4@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- Byron Montgomerie <bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- >George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- >
- ><Much deleted>
- >
- >To reply to all that would be an extreme use of bandwidth, this is not your
- >BBS you know.
-
- I know, I expect a much more intelligent conversation and be in contact
- with people other then troublemakers that don't call my BBS anymore but
- that explains your fascination with my BBS, obviously you haven't gotten
- past some of the BBS mentalities you posess! This is going out to
- the WORLD, stop making references to something everybody doesn't know
- about or even matters in this conversation or the NET.. but stupid is as
- stupid does, one has to revert to something close to home when one is losing
- out on making points. Easy way to get out of it isn't it Byron? Extreme use
- of bandwidth? Phea! Its no friggen jpeg/MPEG being transferred!
-
- >
- >: A new chipset from scratch would take 18 months, using existing
- >
- >Actually that amount of time was to finish off existing projects, take your
- >pick of AAA or Hombre. From scratch who knows.
-
- Exactly, AAA, or some elements of it anyways are being added to the new
- chipset. So if it would have taken 18 months to finish off a chipset
- which was already started, this proves my point that AT are just
- modifying an existing chipset to be have Amiga modes/qualities and
- incorporate older Amiga chip(s) code/registers into it.
-
- >: When you say Xmas '97, do you mean for the chipset to be finished or the
- >: Power Amiga to be shipped? If you are talking about the chipset being
- >
- >Who the hell cares about internal deadlines and completions, I mean out the
- >door and in stores. :)
-
- If you had been reading, it was implied anyways they were looking to have
- it all completed before Xmas '97.
-
- -=*George*=-
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