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- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 11:39:51 +0100
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- Subject: Re: OS features
- Message-ID: <13213428@sourcery.han.de>
-
- In Article <4bdlpc$gpl@flood.xnet.com>, Jason Compton <jcompton@flood.xnet.com> wrote:
- > Olaf Barthel (olsen@sourcery.han.de) wrote:
- > : In Article <DJJ29x.J1H@exeter.ac.uk>, Ken Powell <ken@msor.ex.ac.uk> wrote:
- > : > >
- > : > Doesn't CyberGraphX do this? As this seems to be a ready made solution they
- > : > could just bundle CGX and write an AGA/ECS driver for it...
- >
- > : That's the plan, but it is difficult to put into practice. ECS and
- > : AGA support is trickier than one might expect.
- >
- > The Phase5 PowerUP plan calls for turning the AGA chipset into a
- > CyberGraphics 3.0 device.
-
- One could always wrap another OS layer around the hardware, but getting
- the Amiga custom chip hardware to boot is the real problem. For example, there
- are chip set bugs graphics.library compensates for which have never been
- documented let alone the fact that there is no `real' AA hardware reference
- manual.
-
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