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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: CHIP RAM speed test resul
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 18:18:56 GMT
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- >: Well, I do agree with this. AGA is just too old to be starting point for a
- >: new custom chipset. It make it very difficult, make the price go way and
- >: maket the new design take far too long.
- >don't forget the chipram bandwidth record is hold by a ECS Amiga.
- >huh, ECS ? Yes, the A3000, 7mb/sec _copy_ speed with help of a
- >buffer. So not the chipset needs a change, just put some ICs around
- >it.
- >Don't need no new chipset. need a clever aga-board.
- But that still wouldn't be enough. That would just be another nice, but
- smallish AGA type improvement.
-
- >copper is nice, but I would not mind working on a card where screens
- >are just switched with Amiga-M. Drag is nice for comparing screen
- >contents, though.
- The copper is used for alot more than instantly draggable screen though.
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