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- From: scottdo@winternet.com (Scott Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 11:26:13 GMT
- Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
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- UNREGISTERED VERSION (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
- > >UNREGISTERED VERSION (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) said:
- > >>Ack! The custom chipset IS the Amiga. AmigaDOS wasn't even originally
- > >>supposed to be the OS used on the machine. What the new machines need
- >
- > >No way! The OS is the only thing the Amiga has that's better than other
- > >machines.
- > Even though the chipset is feeble in some ways, it still has a lot of neat
- > tricks and the whole architecture handles things much more elegantly than does
- > a clone. Just because CBM screwed around and never bothered much with truly
- > improving things on the chipset side doesn't mean that it can't be done.
-
- It can't be done without _MAJOR_ money, which AT and Escom don't
- have. There's a good reason why PC chips have been advancing as rapidly as
- they have in the last few years, it's because the ATI's, Diamond's, etc,
- have been making money hand over fist on their video cards and have been
- plowing it back into the development of ever-faster and more capable
- chips. AT and Escom can't compete with that, they don't have the spare
- funds, or the talent available, to keep up. Maybe in the distant future
- when the dominant machine is an Amiga, but not now. Elegance is great,
- and necessary when you're low-powered, but you can afford to loose some of
- it when the power level jumps like it will by going to a PPC and PCI-bus
- connected cards.
-
- Scott
-