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- From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Big mistake - A compromise (of sorts)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.063421.6309@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 06:34:21 EST
- References: <1992Dec18.211223.29630@clipper.ingr.com> <cg.0i2x@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA>
- Organization: Wright State University
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- In article <cg.0i2x@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA>, cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA (Chris Gray) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec18.211223.29630@clipper.ingr.com> kontos@clipper.ingr.com
- > (Thorne K. Kontos) writes:
- >>
- [hardware banging]
-
- > CBM has said they are working on two new chip sets/architectures. One is low
- > end and one is high end. OK, so deliberately make the two sets as incompatible
- > as possible! Then, release the full specs on the low-end architecture, but
- > not for the high-end one. The hacker/demo folks can then hack away on the
- > low-end systems, and their stuff will be shared with and appreciated by all
- > the folks with such systems. Folks like me who want a very stable system for
- > software development will likely have a high-end system anyway (I'm typing
- > this on my A3000/25). If the two architectures are quite different, there is
- > much less chance of any hackers developing something for the high-end systems,
- > which appears to be one of the main concerns about releasing hardware specs.
- > Things like big role-playing games, which can make good use of extra memory
- > and hard disks, don't really need hardware access, and should run just fine
- > on the high-end machines by going through the OS for everything.
- >
- > Folks with lots of money will buy one of each, and will have a stable system
- > on which to run BBS's, develop software, run WP's, spreadsheets, etc. and
- > will have a possibly highly unstable (boot all the time) system on which to
- > run arcade games, demos, mods, etc.
- >
- > Aside from it not solving the problem for AGA, anyone see problems with this?
-
- IMHO, why don't you give it up? Non of the OS vendors, even Microsoft
- are not recommending hardware banging in the future. Commodore is doing
- you a favor by helping garrantee that your software has the best chance
- of running on a future Amiga/Commodore.
-
- >
- > --
- > Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
- Fred Heitkamp, ** Not an organization **
-