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- From: myrjola@news.lut.fi (Mika Yrj|l{)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 00:19:28 +0200
- Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
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- Mustang@vrb.com (Aaron Smith) writes:
-
- >On Tue 27-Feb-1996 6:49p, Lars Nelson wrote:
-
- > 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...
-
- I agree that they couldn't make a better chipset, but is the S3 set
- *really* 100 times faster than AGA? If remember right the old blitter
- could transfer about 4 or 5 megs/second, I find it hard to believe that
- the S3 blitter could be 100x faster?
-
- Mika
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