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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
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- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 20:19:59 GMT
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- > It can't be done without _MAJOR_ money, which AT and Escom don't
- >have.
- The original chipset team didn't have all that tremendously much money.
- And if AT can't afford to do a good chipset then they should have never
- bothered to go to the auction for CBM. I wish the auctionhad proceeded faster
- so that the IBM/CEI team could have won.
-
- >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
- In terms of special effects they stink. There is a lot more than raw
- block transfer blitter speed.
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