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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 10:56:50 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
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- UNREGISTERED VERSION (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) said:
- >>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
-
- Like slothlike speed and low colour depth and resolutions?
-
- >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.
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- Have you used a graphics card?
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- >>AmigaDOS *was* the first OS considered, I think you'll find.
- > No, they were working on their own, but it got all bogged and bugged down
- > so
- >they went to Metacomco I believe for some sort of help in turning some mini-
- >comouter Tripos OS or something like that into AmigaDOS.
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- I have never heard of this.. it must have been a very embryonic system indeed.
-
- >><lots of stuff about Hombre snipped>
- >>This won't happen, and I would be disappointed if it did. I want standard
- >>(read: cheap and fast) hardware that won't be obsolete when Amigas are still
- >>using them 5-10 years later!
-
- > bah.
-
- Hah! I win. :)
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