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- From: Mustang@vrb.com (Aaron Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 96 18:20:47
- Organization: Virtual Reality BBS (vrb.com)
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960306.89DD3A8.10B1E@vrb.com>
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- On Tue 27-Feb-1996 6:49p, Lars Nelson wrote:
-
- LN> They have so far decided to use a custom chip, or chips. Thank
- LN> heavens! Without them, the Amiga would loose its smoothness and speed
- LN> among other things.
- LN> --
- LN> - lars@infohwy.com Amiga 4000/040/25
-
- What? hardly! AT could never make a chipset that comes close to what
- is available today. The S3 trio chipset (used in the cyberVision64 I believe)
- is 100 times faster than that Amiga chipset. It's blitter alone is easily
- 100's of times faster than the old Amiga blitter...
-
- "Amiga, computers for people who want more than just a PC."
-
- Finger mustang@vrb.com info@vrb.com recent@vrb.com who@vrb.com
- A3000 Warped 040/40Mhz 16MB/2gigs, 17 serial ports, OS3.1
- A4000Tower 060 or PPC soon!
-