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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
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- Date: 2 Apr 1996 23:20:14 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Fabio Bizzetti (bizzetti@mbox.vol.it) wrote:
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- : Anyway, also if SVGA chips cost less than the phone call to order them, the
- : 200MIPS CPU needed to get something not ridicolous from them costs a lot.
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- You can get 200mips X86 for what ~120$, a >200mpixel fill, >500meg
- bandwidth to the 200mhz ramdac, >100meg bandwith with PC memmory,
- Wram based PCI card cost ~300$... (Well there is very little wram based
- card so many people guess wich one I'm talking about :)
- Whats so bad about that conbination when that video card include LOADS
- of features like HW zbuffer and complex 2d primitive and blitting
- operation.
- An amiga class OS would exel on such HW, and not produce something
- close to ridicolous... Plus both are easy & 'cheap' to upgrade.
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- Stephan
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