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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 05:43:41 GMT
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- gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel) writes:
-
- >Its not the A600 all over again.. look who we are talking about.. these
- >guys at AT have some brains in their head and have some sense for
- >marketing a particle machine/technology that they own!
-
- >You can bet that either the A1200+ will have a complete new chipset
- >giving better resolutions and better graphics (SVGA chipset with AGA
- >built in and an extra chip giving Amiga qualities to the SVGA chipset if
- >not built in also) or a reworked motherboard with new processor, SIMM
- >sockets and a built in CD-ROM drive with faster AGA chips (CMOS) thus
- >faster graphics. This will improve the quality of software to the point
-
- I for one would be willing to bet that this *won't* happen. New chipsets
- don't just appear like that, especially if you expect backwards compatibility.
-
- >where it will seem like a new chipset anyways as people will be doing
- >more with the hardware that they wouldn't be tak1ing the chance to do
- >with it before. THE LEAST the A1200+ will be is reworked motherboard,
- >new processor, SIMM sockets and NEW Paula chip supporting HD drives and
- >16 BIT audio with possibility of built in HD drive instead of DD. In
- >this short amount of time, they should at least have ONE new chip built!
-
- 16-bit audio? Where is your evidence of this?
-
- >-=*George*=-
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