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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 16:19:48 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Paul Dossett (astroboy@netspace.net.au) wrote:
- : Patrick William Mackin (pwm5k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU) said:
- : >babbage@dmu.ac.uk writes:
- : >>
- : >> whats the cost of an AGA chipset?
- : >> Something like 3$ to produce isnt it?
-
- : >Well, then, let's see some AGA upgrades for ECS machines, or at
- : >least the A3000! Come on, no complaints that "AGA is
- : >outdated." It may not equal a CV64, but it is much much much
- : >better than ECS, and probably most users still have ECS. I
- : >think for $100, they would sell MILLIONS of these things!
-
- : Well, it can't be done, as it's a 32bit system, and ECS units only have a 16bit
- : datapath. Don't you think it would have been done by now if it were possible?
-
- Its possible to put aga on a zorroIII card? $dff000 is now at $xxxxx,
- the OS shouldn't care (But I dont think thats the case).
- The problem is that I dont think the OS provide a way to get the register
- addres base.
-
- Stephan
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