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- From: HAAVARD JAKOBSEN <haa_jako@gih.no>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT Walker Project
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:19:48 +0100
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- > Think about it... If AT spent money trying to catch up to current levels of
- > gfx chips, it would be wasted. Many people (including Haynie) have pointed
- > out that off the shelf parts have advanced far beyond what even AAA would
- > have been capable of. A new multimedia subsystem designed to the same basic
- > idea as old amiga chipsets (offloading much of the work from the CPU) would
- > be the right way to go. All that is needed is the design to bring all these
- > standard chips together in one nice package. That is what would be special
- > about it.
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- I like this idea.... Still I would like backwards compability, but
- I think I can offer this for the future of amiga... :)
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- > The Amiga's operating system running on a PPC with a multimedia system done
- > right with current gfx and audio technology would be an amazing thing.
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- Atleast I want one of those, and think this is the way the amigas of
- the future should be heading for.
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