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- From: lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,no.amiga
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,no.amiga
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 11:22:38 GMT
- Organization: UNINETT news service
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- References: <877.6582T74T468@norconnect.no> <4ctbjv$js6@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <4cu853$5je@ratatosk.uio.no>
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- Renato Bugge (renatob@fys.uio.no) wrote:
- : In article <4ctbjv$js6@bcrkh13.bnr.ca>, Iain Bennett <ijrb@bnr.ca> says:
-
- : >Yes PowerPC is coming... to a certain extent. Apple has had some
- : >problems recently with Motorolla and IBM. I don't know what to expect
- : >of this.
-
- : Personally, I hope we don't have to see Amiga's with this chip. PowerPC-
- : chips are really not that fast.
-
- Why?
- And, which one is faster?
-
- : >Maybe Amiga Technologies should still have a look at using HP, DEC or
- : >possibly ARM. Then again, Amiga Tech could join Apple and benefit from
- : >helping to design PowerPC chips...
-
- : It they want to go faster, then why don't they just make an Amiga with
- : an Alpha 275MHz processor. It's fast (and expensive).
-
- You said it, cost. Some irony here? :)
- So you think the Alpha is fast. Well, if you compare it to
- the PPC you'll find that the PPC pr today holds a much
- more promising future than the Alpha.
- Going with the Alpha could seriously limited the Amigas
- advance in several areas - even if it was cheap.
- Cheers...
-