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- From: mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin)
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
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- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:41:54 GMT
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- Jolyon Ralph (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
- : > >I totally agree. The sad thing is that, if AT had a little more
- : > >imagination the new walker unit could have had a combined AGA/SVGA
- : > >chipset on board as standard. Sure it would push the price up $150, but
- : > >the advantages would be tremendous.
- : >
- : > You make it look sooo simple. I'm no expert, but I think that it
- : > would take quite a bit of R&D to do that: better concentrate on the
- : > PowerAmiga.
- :
- : I doubt the work needed to adapt the design of a gfx board like CV64 to
- : add it to the motherboard would be any more than the work required for
- : the new PC-interface hardware found in the walker. Plus the software
- : (cybergraphics) is already done.
- :
- : C= UK were planning just such a dual system for the new machine they were
- : working on before the buy-out.
-
- I think a much smarter move would be to simply include a PCI slot as
- standard so that people could go downtown to the 7-11 and select their
- own PCI graphics card. I'm sure that PhaseV would be happy to write
- CyberGraphx drivers for a few of the popular PCI cards... I'd rather
- not have SVGA on the motherboard. I can understand AGA being there
- for backwards compatibility, but putting SVGA on the motherboard would
- probably be more expensive for the buyer than just buying off the
- shelf, and it could also promote more hardware banging...
-
- Reg Martin
-