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- From: kthomas@ee.net (Dave Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: VIScorp will continue PPC project - READ!
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 05:57:29 GMT
- Organization: eNET News Server 1
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- >From: kreck@ix.netcom.com (Steve Kreckman )
-
- >Any improvements to the chipsets that we make can and will be applied to all
- >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
- >of existing software and that's like shooting ourselves in the foot. We will
- >grow the computer side of the business along with our own set top boxes.
-
- Oh, yes! Let's once again pass up the chance to create the next generation
- Amiga. Keep expensive, proprietary hardware (and the code that goes along
- with it) in the machine so that it becomes even more outdated.
-
- Not take the architecture in a new direction? I guess this means PPC may be
- out, as that definitely has the potential to break old software. Sounds like
- they mean to keep the same old proprietary chipsets around for a while. I
- seriously doubt they could foot the bill to design and produce a new set of
- custom chips, considering the companies that already make superior chips at
- low prices. So I suppose we can forget a new gfx/audio subsystem that would
- compete with what PC's will have in 1997.
-
- Even the C= development team scrapped AAA and was working on creating the
- basis for an RTG system. Dave Haynie had looked at designing a PCI based gfx
- card using off the shelf parts that would have outperformed AAA and cost much
- less.
-
- C= management kept stifling advancement, and the result was an outdated
- machine that happened to run a very nice OS. VIScorp sounds like more of the
- same. The only way the Amiga could compete now is with a new design that
- jumps the Amiga as far ahead as the A1000 was to the C= 64. The Power Amiga
- with an RTG system would have been just the thing.
-
- The bright spot here? D. Haynie (and other ex C= engineers) have at least
- discussed some system architecture ideas with AT. And those ideas (remember
- the Acutiator architecture?) sounded as if they had alot of potential.
-
- Let's hope VIScorp doesn't throw their ideas to the side as C= management did
- for so long.
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- | Dave Thomas kthomas@ee.net |
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