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- From: vasc@camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt (VASCO ALEXANDRE DA SILVA COSTA(leic))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Future Amigas
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 13:15:00 GMT
- Organization: Instituto Superior Tecnico
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- Pacarana (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
- : >: somewhat Amigatized probably couldn't fit into the announced PPC timescale
- : >: anymore, but if this had been started right away it could have come close.
- : >And what if they started some time ago? At least they have announced that
- : >they're working with a graphic chipset vendor and plan to create a new custom
- : >chipset some time ago. Or am I just imagining that? :-)
- : I don't think that is valid anymore. First they said they would use PA-
- : RISC+Hombre, then PA-RISC or PPC plus a new more powerful Amiga
- : custom chipset, then they said PA-RISC or PPC with rare mentions of a custom
- : chipset, then they said PPC with a few barely noticeable tiny mentions of a
- : new custom chipset, then they said PPC + off the shelf parts most recently.
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- I agree with the latter opinion, but put the chips on the motherboard!
- Otherwise, Amigas will be like PC's. No standards!
- Look at 3D accelaration chips, and chips like the Texas Instruments
- TMS320C82, 1 RISC CPU, 2 ADSP's for $89 - 100 MFlops !
- Real-time MPEG2 (video & audio) decompression.
- z-buffering, blitter, texture mapping you name it!
- (a bit underspecked though cheap...)
-
- NV1 is heavily dependent on the CPU to be much use...
-