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- From: gt6758b@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Maverick Kopack)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Power-up for AGA Machines! rumour.
- Message-ID: <78760@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:45:04 GMT
- References: <22DEC199221001854@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec23.120214.10210@enea.se>
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- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- I work at a research facility which does a god amount of bussiness with DEC.
- Last week a couple of their reps came in and gave a demo of an Alpha system
- and gave a presentation on both the hardware and the new OFS1 Unix operating
- system that they are making for it.
-
- One of the first things that I noticed was the fact that the demo machine they
- had was running a couple of Eric Swartz (sp?) anims in one window! On another
- window they had the Icohedron ball thingy demo found on most Xworkstations.
- In still another window they had an MPEG animation running from a CD-Rom
- drive. It was running at full speed with no lags whatsoever. This was on one
- of the lower models, and it wasn't even one of the production series. The
- reps said that this was one of the test/seed units, and that the engineers
- had tweeked somewhat better performance out of the production models.
-
- After the demo and presentation, I spent some time talking to one of the reps.
- I mentioned to him about all the rumors of C= and DEC getting together and
- putting the Alpha in the Amiga etc. He said that he used to teach at a local
- community college and that he used to have an Amiga. He was very fond of
- their graphics and sound capabilities. I began to tell him about the new AGA
- series systems and the upcoming High-end and Low-end chipsets. We both
- agreed that if the Amiga could put Alphas into their systems, it would make
- for an unstoppable machine. The Alpha chip is capable of running at 200
- specmarks (currently) and will be continually upgraded by DEC towards the 400
- specmark area in the future. Consider that is you used the AGA chipset in
- conjunction with it, the Alpha would be nearly unhampered in it's processing
- times and could use it's full potential for number crunching etc...
-
- The DEC reps also said that thier company was making Alphas pretty much
- available to any company that wanted them, including competetors for their
- systems. Heck, they said they'd even help the other company with the e
- engineering and software integration. DEC has set up software conversion sites
- where you bring them the program, and they run it through their Alpha
- compilers to produce Alpha machine language code.
-
- If we're gonna get a RISC processor for the Amiga, I REALLY think C= should
- highly consider the Alpha as a prime candidate. Especially since DEC said they
- would be releasing a low-end Alpha machine sometime in April-May for a list
- price of $5000 running WindowsNT. This would have dire effects on the Amiga
- market if PC users started to really go to the Alphas in PC's and we're left
- behind in the 32 bit world.......
-
- Just me rambing.....
-
- --Mike Kopack
-
- --
- Michael Maverick Kopack | Sex, drugs, rock and roll
- Internet: gt6758b@prism.gatech.edu |and my Amiga, what else could
- kopack@vortex.erda.rl.af.mil |one ever want?
- kopackm@lonex.rl.af.mil \---------------------------------------
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