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- From: mi93142@ios.chalmers.se (Daniel Sevo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Future Amigas
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:52:43 GMT
- Organization: Dep. of Computer Sience and Business Administration
- Message-ID: <4l85s0$9go@nyheter.chalmers.se>
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- >The newer HP-PA chips have one bad problem that I am sure some people
- >would frown upon: their off-chip caches MUST run at FULL CPU speed (200
- >MHz or higher) using fast SRAM, which is expensive as all hell. Such a
- >system may not be very cost:perofmance effective.
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- Add to that, that HP is very restrictive in selling their PA's to
- competitive companies. As you may know, HP is developing their own
- line of highpower graphics workstations centered around their HP-PA
- series. If the Amiga should be getting close or better they may not
- want to sell PA's to AT.
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