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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New generation of CPUs/graphics/sound (was Re: PowerPC !)
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 04:01:43 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
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- >P.S. Why can't AT talk to a 3rd party chip maker and say we want this and
- >that in these chips (state of the art ideas), make it compatible with what
- >is on the standard SVGA and sound chipsets along with all AGA Amiga
- >modes/options and Amiga specific qualities (as in tell them what is being
- >done in the Amiga chipset to get the special effects) to make one huge
- >super chipset, let that company totally fund the R&D and production costs
- >and when it is all finished, AT buy the rights to the chip set off of
- >them so they can solely distribute it but give a certain percentage of
- >the sales to the creators of the chips. That way the company gets payed
- >back its R&D costs and makes a profit with AT for selling the chips, AT
- >first uses them in a future generation Amiga, we have the best of both
- >worlds but AT could later sell them to PC companies also. This way AT
- >could concentrate now on the making of new computer models and not have
- >to worry about funding their new chipset until it is developed and
- >hopefully by then they would have enough profit to easily by the rights
- >etc. of the new chipset.
- Hopefully they will do something like that. If they won't do them
- themselves then this would be what they must do (and if they truly get al the
- Amiga specialties added-in this could work out better than AT going it on
- their own). I was thinking of the same exact idea myself as a last desperate
- way to imagine that the Amiga style chips won't really be gone forever
- statring with the PPC "Amiga". Give their patents for the copper and
- stuff like that and convince them to add quadruple playfields as well to be
- added into the leading edge next-gen PC GFX card.
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