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- From: rosselli@ling.unipi.it (Roberto Rosselli Del Turco)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 12:07:49 GMT
- Organization: Universita' di Pisa
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- On the 21-Mar-96 11:33:53 jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk (Jolyon Ralph) wrote:
- >> >I totally agree. The sad thing is that, if AT had a little more
- >> >imagination the new walker unit could have had a combined AGA/SVGA
- >> >chipset on board as standard. Sure it would push the price up $150, but
- >> >the advantages would be tremendous.
- >>
- >> You make it look sooo simple. I'm no expert, but I think that it
- >> would take quite a bit of R&D to do that: better concentrate on the
- >> PowerAmiga.
-
- >I doubt the work needed to adapt the design of a gfx board like CV64 to
- >add it to the motherboard would be any more than the work required for
- >the new PC-interface hardware found in the walker. Plus the software
- >(cybergraphics) is already done.
-
- I'm no expert, again, but it seems to me that a gfx subsystem, which
- should also be integrated with AGA, is quite a different beast from a
- I/O chip. But, in any case, I don't understand _why_? Why add a
- significant cost when, being available a PCI and/or Zorro bus, the
- user can add a gfx card _if_ he wants it? Why force him/her to use
- _that_ gfx card instead of another? And if he's already got, say, a
- Picasso board he might want to move in the walker? What about
- obsolescence? You can't change a component that's SMD in your
- machine, and we all know that in a few months there will be a new
- generation of multimedia oriented gfx cards.
-
- The most important thing is that the user _can_ choose mainstream
- parts for his Walker/PowerAmiga.
-
- >C= UK were planning just such a dual system for the new machine they were
- >working on before the buy-out.
-
- Don't know about this project...
-
- >Jolyon
-
-
- Ciao
-
- Roberto
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