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- From: HAAVARD JAKOBSEN <haa_jako@gih.no>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:54:10 +0100
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- UNREGISTERED VERSION 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.
- >
- > >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.
-
- If Chunky mode (16.7 mill colors on on pixel, set on ever pixel on the
- screen,
- just about any resoulution, many times faster the the AGA)
- is a spesial effect, it sure as hell does NOT stink.
-
- Why not get a good SVGA kind of chipset and put it on the motherbord
- on every NEW AMIGA (also the lowends) on a small board that can be
- replaced??
- I would love it!!!
-
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