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- From: jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel)
- Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipset
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- Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:58:46 GMT
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- Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org wrote:
- : >
- : > The first 386s came out in 1986. That's a one-year wait. As I said, the
- : > original ISA bus was fine for 8088 and 80286 systems. It wasn't until the
- : > first 386 systems came out that the ISA bus broke down.
- :
- : Its still a 6-7 year wait from when the IBM first came out. ISA sucked,
- : even before the 386. It was "fine" for a 286, but only because that CPU
- : wasnt fast enough to really bring out the inadequecies [sp?] of ISA.
- :
-
- Duh. And Zorro is "fine" for a 68030, but only because that CPU isn't fast
- enough to really bring out the inadequacies of Zorro.
-
- : >
- : > Hardly. The Zorro III bus is simple and sweet. It works with the Moto
- : > 68000 series, and only with the Moto 68000 series. It has few facilities to
- : > take advantage of advanced 64-bit RISC processors, for example, as
- :
- : Same as EISA, which is the only 32 bit fast slot system that is actualy
- : being supported to any degree..
- :
-
- EISA isn't tied to Intel CPUs. Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC workstations have
- the EISA bus.
-
- :
- : True. However, adding multitasking to MS-DOS (Windows) and the Mac
- : (multifinder) did not cause the majority of software to break (not run).
- : Adding memory protection to the Amiga would cause nearly EVERYTHING to
- : break!
- :
-
- Why? Bad OS design, maybe?
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