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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: PowerPC RISC ? ..
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 18:54:22 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Martin Hasselbacher (hassel@cleo) wrote:
- : I have seen discussions of the future for the amiga.
-
- : Is it going to be PowerPc . or RISC or whatever.
-
- I'm open to 'anything', if its not intel x86 based... Too expansive, to
- crappy.
-
- : One thing I have interest in is all these new Power Consoles, the new
- : game machines like PlayStation by Sony.
-
- : Im just saying that the new Amiga might need some hardware like that.
- : I was suprised that the PlayStation runs a 32bit risc main cpu at 33 mhz..
-
- Its an integrated R3000... SGI is dumping the R3000, I mean they wont
- support it anymore: They go to 64bit standart and extended ISA inst set.
- the min they have now is a 133mhz R4600 64bit. But then they dont market
- their worstation for <300$ :)
-
- : Im hoping that some major improvement is made in the amigas Sound capabilities,
- : nevermind if 8bit 4channel sounds good still.. but if the new amiga generation
- : doesnt progress I will be ashamed to buy it.. . .
-
- A dsp would be nice... But I dont think I want to pay for that, I would
- prefere that they spend that DSP money in a faster CPU. A good audio
- multichannel dma system would do for the standart machine, supporting 8 and
- 16bit stream.
-
- : Im also impressed again by PlayStation that it performs so well with a double
- : spin cdrom?.. Having DSP helps It? well whatever it does stick it in TheAMIGA++
-
- In a perfect world you get a steady stream of 300k second (This can be
- done) so 6 second to entirely fill the playstation ram. Maybe after 1
- second of full speed spin a small intro play and load the rest...
- Who care about cardridges!
-
- I really hate nintendo for bullshiting people about their super idea of
- not using a cdrom because cardrige memory is 1000 time faster then cdrom,
- and so having the edge. I wouldn't be amazed if they told people "We choose
- cardridge because they are harder to break then cd, and you knows kids
- they break anything they can!"... BTW this is the only reason why I didn't
- care to wait for the new nintendo machine and got a PSX.
-
- Stephan
-