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- From: mryba@MCS.COM (Michal L. Rybarski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Haynie joins AT team
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 12:34:53 -0600
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- References: <14FEF421@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> <4inrtg$hlp@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4itcta$lpa@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4iutet$cb2@astfgl.idb.hist.no> <neilo-2303961948150001@d59-1.cpe.maroochydore.aone.net.au> <3156B2C7.2E09@plea.se>
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- Jonas Elfstrom (jonas@plea.se) wrote:
- : Neil O'Rourke wrote:
- : >
- : > In article <4iutet$cb2@astfgl.idb.hist.no>, larsg@pc042.idb.hist.no (Lars
- : > Gσrden) wrote:
- : >
- : > > The Amigaish hardware is dated anyway. There are off the self components
- : > > today that are a lot faster and a lot cheaper than anything that
- : > > AmigaTech can possibly design. There are dedicated companies out there
- : > > that make sound and graphics chips. AT has neither the money nor the
- : > > production facilities to compete with them.
- : > >
- : > > It's the OS that makes the machine tick, for God's sake! A standard
- : > > PClone today has 10x the CPU and graphics speed of an Amiga, but the
- : > > Amiga can still do things those PClones can't. Why? Because of the OS.
- : >
-
- : > Not quite correct ... the standard SVGA chipset can't pull tricks like
- : > draggable screens, screens of different resoultions etc on the one monitor
- : > and the like. These nice feaures of the Amiga are a result of the
- : > hardware.
-
- : I have a CV64 and on that board there is a TrioS3-64 and that is a "standard" SVGA chip.
- : I have draggable screen...
- : If the screens are of different res. or depth (16 vs. 8bit) then there is a slight problem
- : in some cases.
-
-
- There's one trick SVGA(CyberGfx) cannot pull: run efficiently on 6Meg
- machine. And untill we have something faster than 68k family processors,
- some available SVGA tricks will not work either( read:they need a lot of CPU
- power Amigas don't have).
-
- Michal
-
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