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- From: floh@mkmk.in-chemnitz.de (Andre Weissflog)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: amiga questions. - riscami.txt [1/1]
- Message-ID: <CXIVx*xA0@mkmk.in-chemnitz.de>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:52:54 CET
- Reply-To: floh@mkmk.in-chemnitz.de
- References: <4cr622$59j@news.cityscape.co.uk> <182dlai60.alamito@marketgraph.xs4all.nl>
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- In article <182dlai60.alamito@marketgraph.xs4all.nl>, Ruud van Gaal writes:
-
- > In <4cr622$59j@news.cityscape.co.uk> bs05@cityscape.co.uk (NEW COLLEGE)
- > wrote:
- >
- > >I saw Amiga Report 3.21 recently, and in it there is a report
- > >from a speech from escom stating that they will develop a RISC
- > >amiga for 1st quarter '97, that the AAA chipset is dead and their
- > >main task will be to update the OS and make it cross systems.
- >
- > 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). In fact, it would mean killing the Amiga. Really, think about it; I
-
- AAA would be as 'compatible' to AGA as any SVGA chip set. AGA games
- would not run on it. Serious Amiga application have a good chance to
- run on future Amigas with whatever chip set, if they run today on
- Amiga gfx cards (which means: "...use the OS instead of hitting the
- hardware").
-
- As far as speed goes: My gfx card 800x600 workbench in 256 colors
- is way faster then the original chip set in 640x512x16 colors,
- still with the same old 25MHz A3000. And the latest 68k emulators
- running on ppc 604's execute 68k code faster then 40MHz 040's.
-
- > don't call my Win95 PC a Commodore 64 just because I have the OS ported (in
- > the form of an emulator) and are able to run the programs, now do I.
-
- An emulator is not a port because it sits on top of a host os,
- inheriting all the bad habits from the host system.
-
- > In this light, I think porting the OS to anything that even looks like SVGA
- > is equivalent to letting your product die. Look at OS/2. Nobody is waiting
- > for yet another operating system for a PCI machine. Except for NT or Unix,
- > but they are already there. Who needs it if it isn't special. In time, all
- > operating systems will be compatible. Grave mistake in a try to make a bigger
- > market. I've already GOT a PC!
- >
- Aaargh, sure, nobody is waiting for yet another operating system
- with no apps. But I guess *if* decently powered Amigas would have
- been available 2 years ago, only a small fraction of e.g. Lightwave
- users would have jumped to Pentium and Alpha rendering stations.
-
- > Conclusion: Amiga is strongly encouraging me (implicitly) to try Silicon
- > Graphics machines. Sorry!
- >
- They had their chance with the Indy... too bad it got more and
- more expensive over the years.
-
- Bye,
- -Floh.
-
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