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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 20:20:36 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- >On Wed, 27 Mar 96 03:36:15, jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen) wrote:
- >
- >>
- >>In article <3155bfbb.9981064@news.onramp.net> dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (Davi
- d
- > Corn) writes:
- >>>
- >>> Since when does money = programming capabilities? Dave Haynie himself
- >>> said in an interview that the PC's chip technology is better.
- >>
- >>Not exactly. He has repeatedly stated things like "there are some very power
- f
- >ul
- >>chipsets out there" (ie. not necessarily for the PC, and certainly not
- >>exclusively for the PC) that we could use. And "off-the-shelf mainstream
- >>components are more cost-effective" (ie. cheaper because of larger production
- >>quantities), and "even OCS can do some things that no other chipset today can
- >>do". But never "the PC's chip technology is better".
- >>
- >>What the hell *is* "the PC's chip technology" anyway? The chips are mostly t
- h
- >e
- >>same, it's just that Amiga users don't always need graphics cards while PC us
- e
- >rs
- >>do so the boards are cheaper in the PC market.
- >
- >
- >Perhaps someone will quote Dave's typing from Compuserver or whatever
- >the forum was that Asha Develder moderated; Dave EXPLICITLY stated a
- >50-100x faster number; I'm not sure on the specifics, but that's the
- >gist of it. I stand by my statement.
-
- So ...? Your point is?
-
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