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- From: Lars Nelson <lars@infohwy.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The New Ami: a right step!
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:35:21 -0600
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- Reg Martin wrote:
- > UNREGISTERED VERSION (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
- > : Oh please, custom chips are hardly the reason CBM failed! I think that their
- > : mistakes have been gone over more than enough already.
-
- > but IMO proprietary chipsets were one of them. They proved that they were
- > incapable of keeping the chipsets competitive, and the design of their
-
- > Custom chips made sense in 1985, but they are just a silly idea in the
- > late 90s. Glad to hear that AT knows this.
-
- That's nonsense. The custom chips with the OS are the reason the Amiga
- is so powerful. Custom chip sets could still blow away the competition. The
- problem is that it takes years of high expense to do it, and Commodore engineering
- was not allowed by their administration to keep up the development on the chips.
- If AmigaTech did develop custom chips, it would be 1998 before they would be ready,
- and they would be expensive.
-
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