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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The New Ami: a right step!
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 19:33:53 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
- Message-ID: <820.6654T1434T1159@gramercy.ios.com>
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- >It's impossible to know what factors all played a part in the death of C=,
- >but IMO proprietary chipsets were one of them. They proved that they were
- >incapable of keeping the chipsets competitive, and the design of their
- >computers made it difficult (or impossible) for users to upgrade to the
- >latest chipset. It's pretty obvious that this didn't help their sales...
- >Custom chips made sense in 1985, but they are just a silly idea in the
- >late 90s. Glad to hear that AT knows this.
- Silly?? No way. Heck, even PC gfx cards are starting to use more than just a
- plain buffer (although not very elegantly and not so well integrated into the
- whole system, and all in different incompatable ways so they receive little
- support). Look at the consoles, Custom chips galore. Look at a $300 Nintendo
- beat a $2500 Pentium.
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