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- From: scottdo@winternet.com (Scott Olson)
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- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 03:18:59 GMT
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- UNREGISTERED VERSION (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
- > > 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.
-
- And by modern standards, those graphics chips are terribly limited:
- slow, low-color, limited RAM access, etc. AT has the right idea: let
- someone ELSE spend the money to develop these things, then buy the chips
- and use them. Leverage their expertise, don't try to re-invent the wheel.
-
- > >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.
-
- <yawn> Another demo coder. Simply put: I could care less if they're
- not great at what you consider `special effects'. They're very good at
- what they do, and improving all the time. Locking the next-generation
- Amiga to a proprietary chipset in this day and age is insane, because by
- the time it's available it will be completely obsolete by marketplace
- standards.
-
- Scott
-