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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New generation of CPUs/graphics/sound (was Re: PowerPC !)
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 19:09:19 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : 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.
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- [Sings] "You can't always get what you want.. But if you try sometime..
- You just might find.. You get what you need.. Yah.. " ;)
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- Regards,
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- BM
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