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- On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, HAAVARD JAKOBSEN wrote:
-
- > > 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.
- >
- > I like this idea.... Still I would like backwards compability, but
- > I think I can offer this for the future of amiga... :)
-
- I think AT have this in mind, they are very hard on the backwards
- compability issue. And one thing to keep the backward possibility is to
- include the old AGA chips on the new machines aswell, as a fallback chip
- for older programs... Just like they will use Paula as a falllback chip
- for the new I/O chips in the Walker.
-
- /Thomas
-