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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.games,alt.sys.amiga.demos,in,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 01:09:12 GMT
- Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
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- On Wed, 27 Mar 96 03:36:15, jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen) wrote:
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- >In article <3155bfbb.9981064@news.onramp.net> dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:
- >>
- >> Since when does money = programming capabilities? Dave Haynie himself
- >> said in an interview that the PC's chip technology is better.
- >
- >Not exactly. He has repeatedly stated things like "there are some very powerful
- >chipsets out there" (ie. not necessarily for the PC, and certainly not
- >exclusively for the PC) that we could use. And "off-the-shelf mainstream
- >components are more cost-effective" (ie. cheaper because of larger production
- >quantities), and "even OCS can do some things that no other chipset today can
- >do". But never "the PC's chip technology is better".
- >
- >What the hell *is* "the PC's chip technology" anyway? The chips are mostly the
- >same, it's just that Amiga users don't always need graphics cards while PC users
- >do so the boards are cheaper in the PC market.
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- Perhaps someone will quote Dave's typing from Compuserver or whatever
- the forum was that Asha Develder moderated; Dave EXPLICITLY stated a
- 50-100x faster number; I'm not sure on the specifics, but that's the
- gist of it. I stand by my statement.
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