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- Path: news.sma.ch!w412!orv
- From: orv@sma.ch (Valerio Ortelli)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 14:28:04 GMT
- Organization: Swiss Meteorological Institute
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4irp1lINNpf2@maz4.sma.ch>
- References: <5168.6652T1418T493@mbox.vol.it>
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- In article 6652T1418T493@mbox.vol.it, bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti) writes:
-
- > What sucks++ is that AT is not *capable* to make innovative custom chips
- > (they can say it's not possible, but I know that every console producer makes
- > custom chips). So, being not capable to make them, the PowerAmiga is destined
- > to be another PC clone, with just a different CPU (PowerPC: btw, I bought a
- ......
-
- > If AT wants this shit from PowerAmiga, then IMHO the *last* Amiga will be the
- > 680x0 and AGA based ones. The PowerAmiga will be a PC with just another CPU.
-
-
- I have another idea of the whole thing:
-
- What if AT means to just make a motherboard like the old ones (new version and
- optimized for "standard chips") and some connectors to plug all the new "standard
- chips" that are upgradeables in any moment.
- These chips will be called and will work exactly in the same way the actual chips
- do, and the "direct calls" to them are done by programmers through the OS and
- not directly, with about the same results.
-
- Of course the new board may include some "old way chips" to complete and coordinate
- everything.
- You will not have a PC with some boards inside but an Amiga running in its own
- way every newest hardware.
- I really dunno how this may be possible, tecnically, but may be ...
-
- orv
-