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- From: madhacker@smarty.smart.net (F. Cowart)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS ? Standard Chips ?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 02:03:03 GMT
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- Valerio Ortelli (orv@sma.ch) wrote:
-
- : What it means AmigaOS ?
- : What it means "Standard Chips" ?
-
- The Amiga is the computer and AmigaOS is the operating system.
-
- The strongest point of the Amiga computer is a set of 3 custom chips that
- give you great power in graphics and sound.
-
- : When they say the only advantage of Amiga is the OS they mean Workbench and
- Shell
- : just "a la Draco" or really the ability to coordinate a
- multichips/multiprocessor
- : machine ?
-
- The advantage of the Amiga is that it works. It just does what you want
- it to without a lot of pain.
-
- : When AT says that new Amigas will have "Standard Chips" instead of AGA,
- whe have to
- : read "a kind of Draco" or an Amiga system using existing CPUs and DSPs
- for the same
- : job done today by AGA ?
-
- Standard Chips = an older system
-
- AGA = Advance Graphic Adapter = a sligly better system.
-
- : orv
-