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- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 19:59:34 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
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- From: nuijen@grafix.xs4all.nl (Gerbert Nuijen)
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- In a message of 23 Mar 96 Fabio Bizzetti wrote to All:
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- < A very very long message about the PowerPC chip versus 68060HP-PA >
-
- Ehmm.. Fabio...Hi :)
-
- I never heard of the HP-PA chip, what kind of chip is it ?
- What computer uses them ?? I mean, the powerpc chip is used by some
- Clones and offcourze by the Powermacs.. But the HP-PA chip ??
- I never even heard of it !! Unless you're talking here about the
- regulare 060's, and in that case. I think you're nuts !!!
- But then I'm no expert. But I guess the
- PowerPC is more widely used and I think that it would therefor be
- a lot cheaper and easier for AT to get these chips. I mean that
- was the problem with the 060 and the 040, there weren't many
- that buyers, so not many were produced.
-
- Another thing.. I've read that end '96 or somewhere in '97 the PowerPC
- chip can already reach speeds of 600Mhz. I think the PowerPc chip is
- simply more supported. It doesn't matter if one chip is better. Look at
- the Intel versus Motorola. I mean the 68000 was a better CPU then the
- Clone chips these days.. But look now.. A pentium is about 4x times
- faster then the 68060 (don't know if I'm correct here, just guessing)
- , but then again the Pentiums are badly designed. Did you know that
- if you don't give the CPU something to do, it's performance will go down ??
- Until you reset offcourse..
-
- The things about Custom-gfx-chips :
- Why not use a SVGA ?? I mean they are cheap and updated very often !!!
- If AT is designing it's own chips, it would mean AT needs about
- 30,40 very experienced gfx-chips designers and millions $$$ And we all know
- that is not the situation right now. I mean a SVGA chip costs 10$ ? What
- do think the Custom chips will cost if AT desgined them ?? More then 10$,
- thats for sure. And those chips would need to be upgraded every year to keep
- up with the compitition.
-
- I vagely remember you said something about a AGA-extension or something
- alike.
- I don't know what this project means, so won't say anything about it.
- Only this.. a extension is a usually a simply tempororarely (shit can't
- remember how you spell it :( , did I spell it right ;) ??), that means where
- still nowhere next year.
-
- Ps.. I'm not an expert at this areas, just saying what I'm thinking.
- So please no flames...
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