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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: CHIP RAM speed test resul
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 20:06:12 GMT
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- >Oh, a state-of-the-art video controller that reads 200MByte/s and leaves
- >60MByte/s for the CPU is even nicer.
- That's still less than half the performance of the non-standard M2
- chipset.
-
- >>AGA can be improved a lot though,
- >Hah. Could you afford to improve AGA ? The fact that something is
- >theoretically possible doesn't mean that it is feasible.
- 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.
-
- >The PCI board is much more flexible _because_ it gains all from the
- >Pentium's speed. With a custom chipset like AGA you are more or less
- >stuck with 5-10 year old technology.
- With one like AGA, but not with one finally updated fully for once. If AT is
- too feeble to handle anything, won't/can't go get Amiga hardware people, then
- hopefully they can succeed in liscencing out the patented features of the
- Amiga. Get the top bandwidth, 3D pc card with the fanciest blitter and stick
- all the Amiga specialties into it. Somehow hacking things such as the copper
- into a set not designed with anything like that in mind would seem to me
- to be more difficult than starting from scratch, however someone
- (perhaps even connected with the former CBM engineering) seemed to think that
- it was easier and possible.
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