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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!de351
- From: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: VIScorp will continue PPC project - READ!
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 23:56:25 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: de351@freenet3.carleton.ca (K. C. Lee)
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- Jason S Birch (jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au) writes:
- >>the product line. We want to keep the Amiga architecture intact, not take it
- >>in a radically new direction. If we change the architecture, we break a lot
- >
- > Unfortunately, this is what I *didn't* want to hear, but what I
- > expected. Many of us (including Dave Haynie) have been talking about
- > the need to switch to (possibly customized) commodity chips from
- > someone like S3, who have the resources to build kick-butt hardware at
- > very low prices. These sorts of chips are very good for a personal
-
- Yeap. This is exactly what I am afraid. We have been locked to the 10
- years old chipsets for ages when even the cheapest SVGA accelerators just
- runs circles around it at a cheaper price. Why are we shooting ourselves
- in the foot by limiting what the hardware can do ?
-
- Can Viscorp run against PC graphic chips houses that have new products
- every few months. Remember that graphics chip companies like ATI spent
- about 15 Millions dollars U.S. last year into R&D. What's the driving
- force for Viscorp to make a chipset capable of doing 1280x1024 256 colours
- (pretty much standard on a $150 card) ? Would they make a chunky mode
- graphics ? What about the Power PC ? Isn't that radically new direction ?
-
- > Jason S Birch ,-_|\ email: jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au
-
- K. C. Lee
-