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- From: hpesonen@vipunen.hut.fi (Harri P Pesonen)
- Subject: Re: Amiga 4000
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.174711.6960@nntp.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id)
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- Reply-To: hpesonen@vipunen.hut.fi (Harri P Pesonen)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
- References: <62741@cup.portal.com> <1992Jul25.203059.2636@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <u894776.712124367@bruny>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:47:11 GMT
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- In article <u894776.712124367@bruny> u894776@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (James McCoull) writes:
- >jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young) writes:
- >>they took money away from A4000 project. Even Kickstart 3.0/39.
- >>text shows AA chips only have double speed so C= MUST spend
- >>more money to design better chips.
- >
- >Double speed? eek! I would hope for a factor of between 4x and 8x.
- >You get 2x speedup for doubling bus width, say 1.5x for page mode access
- >and say another factor of 2 or so for using faster ram.
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- Speed and bus width are two different things. Double speed and double bus
- width equals four times better graphics.
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- Harri Pesonen, Helsinki, Finland, Europe?
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