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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 19:33:55 GMT
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- Message-ID: <806.6654T1436T473@gramercy.ios.com>
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- >Did you know that the AAA chipset would have had HSV ham iso RGB ham?! Think
- >of the possibilities that would have given. Add the fact, that they also
- >worked (Dunno how far it was finished. I thought it was nearly finished) on
- >MULTIPLE BLITTERS accessing memory AT THE SAME TIME! According to a friend
- >of mine, they were working on blitters that could access both chip and
- >FASTmem! Imagine the possibilties of that! Imagine what a whole lot of load
- >you would take of the CPU! The whole project was nearly finished, but it
- >makes my fresh crawl thinking about all stuff CBM did wrong!
- >If I am correct, they only needed $500,000 to finish the whole project!!!
- >Can anyone confirm all of the above?!
- Yup, and they even had (on paper) most of a design that for the most part had
- even more power to it.
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