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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Great feature in 1200 (3.0?)
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:07:10 GMT
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- In article <43302@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> jfriesne@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner!) writes:
- >>| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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- >>"No, I just think that a computer grafted on top of another computer
- >>is a kludge. It has nothing to do with the AGA chipset." -- me
- >
- >
- >Unless they ever get an AGA plug-in board out, I can't think
- >of any Amiga that this applies to... perhaps you refer to
- >the BridgeBoard?
-
- No. Internally, the AGA Lisa chip remains software-compatible with the
- ECS Denise chip in a fashion very similar to the way the 80286 and 80386
- remain software-compatible with the 8086. The AGA Lisa chip even has a
- "game compatibility mode" that basically turns the chip into an ECS Denise,
- and this is very similar to the 8086-compatibility mode of the 80386.
- Some have called this method of grafting old computers on top of new
- computers a kludge, but of course they mean nothing about the Intel or
- AGA chips when they say this...
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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