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- From: mennosto@zeelandnet.nl (menno stormink)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 17:35:55 GMT
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- koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) wrote:
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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
- I got the feeling that you might be right , if you were to ask me, the
- people who ask for the Powerpc-amiga to have a custom-chipset might
- want something diverend from what they ask.
- What they want is something to put the amiga apart from the rest, one
- is software (the workbench), and two is hardware (the chipset).
- I see no reasen for this to be something like a DSP or 3D-chip from
- the shelf, not a new Chip-set.
-
-
- email : mennosto@zeelandnet.nl
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