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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: AmigaOS ? Standard Chips ?
- Date: 26 Mar 96 17:08:05 +0000
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- Hi, F. Cowart , on 22-Mar-96 02:03:03 you scribbled....
- >Valerio Ortelli (orv@sma.ch) wrote:
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- >: What it means AmigaOS ?
- >: What it means "Standard Chips" ?
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- >The Amiga is the computer and AmigaOS is the operating system.
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- >The strongest point of the Amiga computer is a set of 3 custom chips that
- >give you great power in graphics and sound.
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- >: When they say the only advantage of Amiga is the OS they mean Workbench and
- > Shell
- >: just "a la Draco" or really the ability to coordinate a
- >multichips/multiprocessor
- >: machine ?
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- >The advantage of the Amiga is that it works. It just does what you want
- >it to without a lot of pain.
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- >: When AT says that new Amigas will have "Standard Chips" instead of AGA,
- > whe have to
- >: read "a kind of Draco" or an Amiga system using existing CPUs and DSPs
- >for the same
- >: job done today by AGA ?
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- >Standard Chips = an older system
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- heh S3 vs AGA ?
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- >AGA = Advance Graphic Adapter = a sligly better system.
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- AGA = ANCIENT Graphics Architecture
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- Mike ( Who want PPC and PCI ...NOW!)
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