home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: murphy.servtech.com!cyber1!nyle
- From: nyle@cyber1.servtech.com (nyle landas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.be
- Subject: Re: 1995 Production Status?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.be
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 14:17:38 GMT
- Organization: ServiceTech, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4f2f62$p2r@murphy.servtech.com>
- References: <4de07p$bbo@bandit.cyberwar.com> <6903.6590T111T2506@ci.educ.lu> <4dk1mb$e97@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <4dp18h$1uq@murphy.servtech.com> <mipsyssw-2301961619070001@cyber55.imaginet.fr> <4e7kfg$12d@hermes.jersey.net> <neilo-2601961755410001@d40-1.cpe.maroochydore.aone.net.au> <4eb090$2p8@shrimp.acs.brockport.edu> <4ep6s1$pt1@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: cyber1.servtech.com
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
-
- John Gregor (aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
-
- : >Neil O'Rourke (neilo@m140.aone.net.au) wrote:
- : >: Ok, farm out the Amiga's chipset on to a PCI card? I know PCI is fast,
-
- : For what earthly purpose would you want to put an old, out of date, slow,
- : low resolution, low color, and low refresh rate chipset on a PCI card, when
- : you can get a cheap, fast, high res, high color, high refresh rate
- : card off the shelf for $140?
-
- Well since they are upgrading the chipset that will be in the PowerAmiga
- we'll have to wait and see if your statements hold true 24-bit all
- resolutions, and 16-bit sound - and yet they say it's not AAA. But there
- is one other big reason - backwards compatibility. If you want a SVGA PCI
- card you can buy that too and run it along side the chipset. That means we
- can have the best of both worlds. There are some neat things in the Amiga
- chipset not present in the SVGA cards for the PCCs BTW.
-
- -Nyle
-
- --
- ----
- Nyle F. Landas http://www.servtech.com/public/ami4000/
- nyle@servtech.com ftp://ftp.servtech.com/pub/users/ami4000/
-
- Amiga Users Page - http://www.servtech.com/public/ami4000/AmiUsers.html
- Amiga Dealers Page - http://www.servtech.com/public/ami4000/AmiDlrs.html
-
- Build a better mousetrap and Bill Gates will steal all the Cheese.
-
-