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- From: sdaveyj@cc.curtin.edu.au
- Subject: Re: New machines
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.171245.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Nov13.131513.12073@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov13.172521.1259@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:12:45 GMT
-
- >>Acorn may use an 80486 processor for graphics work,
- >>working with the VIDCII to free up the ARMXXX. This
- >>sounds like pure imagination - could it be true?
- >
- > Pure imagination. Not even Acorn could be *that* stupid. Why use a piece of
- > crap like a 486 when you can get a cheap, faster processor and you own 30% of
- > the company that makes them?
- >
- > Not that Acorn would even need a separate graphics processor (although it may
- > be a good excuse to add another L500 to the retail price...)
- >
- > Mike.
-
- What a laugh! 486? why bother. Anyway, about the last paragraph, I tend to
- aggree. Most of the work done on archimedes is using the desktop, and
- really the processor dosen't spend loads of time updating display, so
- maybe it would be nice to have the option of a graphics processor but
- not compulsory. Anyway the graphics chip would have to be faster than
- the main CPU otherwise it might as well do it its' self.
-
- I like the sound of the new machine rumors, I hope it is soon, my PC386
- friend desperately wants an archimedes (hopefully at a lowish price)
-
- John
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