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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: amiga questions. - riscami.txt [1/1]
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 23:26:04 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- rvg@marketgraph.xs4all.nl (Ruud van Gaal) writes:
-
- >Great (sarcastic). In my opinion abandoning the AAA chipset style and porting
- >the OS to, for example, a PCI/SVGA environment would effectively mean killing
- >ALL old Amiga applications (especially games; the rest would be relatively
- >slow).
-
- This is definitely not true. Sure, it will kill games, but sure, every
- change to the hardware (even different configurations of existing
- Amigas) do kill the games.
-
- System conform applications do rarely have problems. Most will work the
- same was as they work _now_ on graphics cards. There are a few types
- of applications that will be killed though.
-
- >is equivalent to letting your product die. Look at OS/2. Nobody is waiting
- >for yet another operating system for a PCI machine.
-
- But everybody is waiting for better Amiga hardware.
-
- >Conclusion: Amiga is strongly encouraging me (implicitly) to try Silicon
- >Graphics machines. Sorry!
-
- That's ridiculous. The Amiga never was a high-end big-money graphics
- workstation.
-
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- Michael van Elst
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