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- From: nilo@login.dknet.dk (Nicolai Thilo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Debate (Was: "Walker Case: two choices.")
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 01:13:48 GMT
- Organization: Customer at DKnet
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- In article <4kjh5b$258@kaon.kuai.se>, Anders Karlsson (flex@kuai.se) wrote:
-
- > P> A high-priced PPC with a cheapo SVGA card would be a joke. I don't
- > P> think that is what they could have planned.
-
- >Forget about "cheapo" S-VGA. There won't be such thing. The chips
- >used _might_ be the same as on the CV-64. (Just guessing here.)
-
- Yawn. It also conforms to SVGA shortcomings. It is designed for the
- PC, where no one cares that it's slower than Amiga hardware at
- screenmode changes, or that it has no copper, or that the palette in
- 8-bit mode is only 256k colors, poor video support, etc.
-
- Some think only the OS makes the Amiga, others think only the custom
- chips make the Amiga. Both are wrong, IMHO. It is the *concept*,
- ie. the tight integration between cool OS and cool hardware that
- makes the Amiga. SVGA isn't "cool", it's just plain boring. The
- main advantages it has over AGA graphics is price, bandwidth and the
- chunky byteplane modes. Going for this only to loose all the cool
- (and promised) Amiga hardware features would be like solving the
- AmigaOS problems by going WinNT.
-
- Luckily, it seems that VIScorp acknowledges the power of the Amiga
- concept, as any REAL Amiga owners do.. :) If they think AGA is the
- "best available" for set top boxes, then what would something like
- AAA (or better) be? AAA was the TRUE successor to ECS, it was going
- to be MUCH better than AGA... With a non-compromising standard
- chipset (including a flexible DSP implementation a la A3000+) and an
- OS to manage it properly, the high end PowerAmiga could become a
- cost-effective state of the art multimedia workstation! Watch out
- SGI!! <Jumping up and down in wild optimism over the VIScorp deal!!>
-