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- From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: AA Chip set
- Message-ID: <C1HD3r.Cx2@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:31:03 GMT
- References: <mwalter.1179@theborg.mlb.fl.us> <10604@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
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- peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
-
- >Nah, AA and AGA are the same. AA (or its full name "Pandora") were the
- >names during development, only after that someone in marketing obviously
- >decided to expand that name to AGA. But they didn't ask us Europeans:
- >We cannot use the term AGA, as this was already used for some PC video
- >card here heavily not long ago. There is no indication yet of the name
- >of the coming announced new chipsets. Oh pardon, yes there was: I heard
- >a rumor calling them "triple A" or AAA, but absolutely *no* guarantee!!!
-
- I heard a rumor saying that Commodore changed the term "AA" to "AGA"
- right before the 4000 releases because C= has only improved the graphics
- (which G stands for). The audio part (I suppose this is the DSP we all
- talked about) will come later. Without the audio part, we can only
- refer "AA" chipset as "AGA." Who knows.. may be we can call the audio
- part "AAA" :)
-
- AGA is also a CGA/MDA card made by C=, is it not?
-
- Yours Sincerely,
- Kelvin
- e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
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