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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: VIScorp will continue PPC project - READ!
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 22:06:37 GMT
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- >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.
- That was off on the side, officially they moved on to Hombre.
-
- >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.
- From what I gather, which certianly could be wrong, the Acutiator thing was
- sort of a way to hack Hombre onto an AAA system. I don't think that makes too
- much sense since we don't have AAA and wouldn't need it with were the stand
- alone Hombre had evolvd too (unless perhaps it could hook a PA-RISC/Hombre
- as a gfx card into a PPC system).
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