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- From: koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 05 Mar 1996 08:11:43 -0700
- Organization: HP Fort Collins Site
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- In-reply-to: Lars Nelson's message of Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:49:54 -0600
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- Lars Nelson <lars@infohwy.com> wrote:
-
- > They have so far decided to use a custom chip, or chips. Thank
- > heavens! Without them, the Amiga would loose its smoothness and speed
- > among other things.
-
- Sigh. The Amiga's custom chips do little except slow it down right now.
- The Amiga's "smoothness and speed" gets vastly better once you *stop*
- using the custom graphics chips, for example. Even run-of-the-mill PC
- graphics chips are 40 to 60X faster than AGA for many things.
-
- All developing a new custom chipset will do is consume resources trying
- to compete with the PC commodity players instead of using those
- resources to work on areas in which they might actually add value. Its
- better to level the work of companies that specialize in creating
- graphics and sound chips, not roll your own. That approach will kill
- the Amiga as surely as anything. What we do *not* need is a great deal
- of AT's time and money sunk into creating yet another slow and out of
- date chipset, especially when they haven't so much as said "boo" to
- software developers, who are leaving in droves to other platforms.
-
- - steve
-