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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:13:14 EST
- From: <LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <92359.191314LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipsets
- References: <1992Dec13.024304.18878@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- <1992Dec13.042019.10045@sol.cs.wmich.edu>
- <BzFFFz.1uG@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- In article <BzFFFz.1uG@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>,
- papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) says:
- >
- >Yeah, right. I can GUARANTEE you that the PC will have a 64 bit bus
- >before the Amiga, no question.
- >
- >Hear me now, believe me later. There will be 64 bit bus PCs before
- >the end of 1993. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Make that "There will be 64 bit PC buses....."
-
- The PC crowd even have problems settling on a standard local bus at
- the moment. The 64-bit 'bus' you are hinting is probably the raw
- CPU bus signals + a few control lines. The high bandwidth that comes
- with it would only be useful for memory expansion (eg. cache, ram)
- hardly a general purpose bus for peripherals. Eventually there might
- be a 'standard' for a more general purpose high performance bus, but
- that's a few years down the road.
-
- K. C. Lee
- Elec. Eng. Grad. Student
-