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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Theese Specs are crud!
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Nostromo
- From: damocles@nostromo.gate.net (Randy Vice)
- Message-ID: <damocles.3iza@nostromo.gate.net>
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 96 10:19:09 EST
-
- On Sat 30-Mar-1996 8:06p, Pacarana wrote:
- P> >Pacarana (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
- P> >: >the R&D for the new chipset is not yet complete. the RISC Amigas
- P> coming
- P> >: >at the end of the year/ beginning of next will have the new chipset.
- P> >: No, they cancelled all such plans. :(
- P> >The nest generation Amiga will probably use off the shelf PCI type
- P> >graphic cards such as Diamond Stealth or API or what ever. They are fast
- P> >and cheap and work.
- P> >Either we take the SVGA cards and PPC or end up with ZERO Amiga.
- P> An Amiga with no Amiga hardware is already no Amiga. You've already
- P> failed without even trying.
-
- Heck no! As long as it runs Amiga OS and is tapping into the cutting edge
- tech, it will be an Amiga. We're seeing the SVGA chipsets in these third
- party video cards as it is and I don't see too many complaintes from folks
- using them on their Amigas. It's the Amiga OS that is the heart and sole of
- the Amiga, not some out of date custom chips. The custom chips were designed
- to help out a wimpy 68000 so it wouldn't bog down when running CPU and graphic
- intensive programs. We are now about to tap into some real power, PPC that is
- as above the current 680x0 family as the 68000 was above the Z-80. We don't
- need the custom chipsets anymore since the world has finally given us a CPU
- that can handle with ease the graphics processing requirements and have
- enourmus CPU time left in reserve.
-
- : damocles@nostromo.gate.net : Bruce Morrow,a man before and after his time:
- :"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the :
- :United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." :
- : - Samual Adams : Morrow Project Recon: The Expendible Ones :
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