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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 19:20:04 -0800
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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 do
- e
- >s
- >> 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.
-
- Scuse please, but I have been told that Amiga Technolgies IS going to
- produce their own. Apparently they DO have the talent and the bucks!
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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