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- From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Questions about new computers/future chipsets
- Message-ID: <38388@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 17:38:17 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.165251.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>
- Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <1992Dec29.165251.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> traynor@fnalo.fnal.gov writes:
-
- >Has C= mentioned whether the new machines (A4000, A1200, etc) will
- >be able to handle either their low-end or high-end chipsets when they
- >are released in 1994?
-
- Not as plug-in replacements. The days of drop-in replacement chips are long
- gone. Why? Only those who consider ECS a major improvement over the original
- chip set need wonder.
-
- The A4000 will be capable of running 4.0, and 4.0 is supposed to support RTG.
- Therefore, the A4000 could support any display device added in as a Zorro
- card. It's possible to put the new "high-end" chip set on such a card. Whether
- C= will do so or not is up to C=. In the end, it won't matter all that much
- anyway, since there are already display cards out there with better-than-AA
- performance that'll work in your A3000 or A4000. RTG will simply make it
- easy for a developer to provide Monitor files for such cards.
-
- As for the A1200, certainly some display device might fit on its local bus
- card, but it might be a tight squeeze.
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