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- From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: What is the Amiga 4000?
- Message-ID: <33719@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 22:32:13 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.232213.3546@arizona.edu>
- Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
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- In article <1992Jul26.232213.3546@arizona.edu> CBLACK@hacks.arizona.edu (harlie B ) writes:
-
- >But I would like to know if they, Commodore, put the following into it
- >[hypothetical succesor to the A3000]:
- >
- > A better hard drive interface,
-
- The A3000 has the fastest motherboard-based hard disk interface of any
- personal computer out there (you can get somewhat faster SCSI boards for
- MCA or EISA if you have some cash to burn). Using the Maxtor Magic drive,
- it clocked it with 4.2MB/s though the scsi.device and 3.9MB/s though the
- filesystem (as I recall -- correct me if I'm off, disk people). That's
- fast enough to have it mentioned in their literature.
-
- > Also if they got rid of the 8 bit (I am not shure if the angus, Denise,
- > and/or paula are what I am thinking of) chip set.
-
- I have absolutely no idea what you're thinking of. Agnus, Denise, and Paula
- are 16-bit chips through and though. What you probably want is some 32-bit
- Amiga chips. Bus widths are an implementation detail, anyway. You should be
- more concerned with what it does -- there's no inherent functional difference
- between a 32-bit system at bus speed N and a 16-bit system at bus speed 2*N.
- The choice of implementation is mainly one of cost.
- --
- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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