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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Haynie joins AT team
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 23:07:26 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
- Message-ID: <1248.6658T859T2362@gramercy.ios.com>
- References: <199603201242.mellorp.3343@mcarepcs.demon.co.uk> <20070.6657T48T1075@ci.educ.lu>
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- >Dave is THE AMIGA creator!
- What??
- He had nothing to do with the creation of the Amiga. The whole philosophy of
- the machine, the custom chips, they were created by the Jay Miner and Gang.
- He just happened to be an employee of the company who bought out the desgin.
-
- >things , of which most never did appear in the shops! Like the A3000+ or the
- >A5000 AAA!
- Only the motherboards and busses (not that that is nothing though), not the
- AAA, Hombre, etc.
-
- >ran the existing AmigaOS almost without incident. In addition to the AA
- >chips, this first 3000+ had a digital signal processor, the AT&T DSP3210,
- >built in as a local bus coprocessor. The DSP3210 and the Amiga were a match
- >made in heaven. The 3210 was a local bus master, allowing for DSP systems
- >to be built without the expensive and limiting SRAM of earlier designs. The
- >3210, at 50MHz, crunched 32-bit floating point at up to 25MFLOPS, five
- >times faster than the 68040. AT&T has a full fledged, multitasking,
- >multiprocessing DSP operating system for the 3210, which used an arbitrary
- >general purpose OS as a host. The Amiga's low overhead, near realtime OS
- >was a perfect mate for AT&T's VCOS.
- Yeah, a great shame that CBM canned this and went for a dealyed A1200/A4000
- instead.
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