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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!sanford
- From: sanford@ee.mu.OZ.AU (sanford tong)
- Subject: Re: AA Chipset compatibility
- Message-ID: <9224609.23152@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Electronic and Electrical Engineering - University of Melbourne
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:00:25 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- Hi!
-
- I've been reading this newsgroup recently about the concerns
- about whether or not the AA chipset will work with their machines. I'm not
- claiming to be an expert in this area, but the argument about 16-bit->32-bit.
- Going by this logic, then doesn't that mean '030 accelerators should never
- have existed on the A500?
-
- If the Chip RAM/bus is too slow, then what's stopping third party (maybe
- even Commodore themselves (giggle giggle)) people from putting all the chips
- onto a daughterboard with memory slots, like in those accelerators?
-
- I think that even though data passing from between CPU and the graphics/
- sound 'subsystem' may slow down things a little in the 16-bit A500/A2000 systems
- i think that AA compatibility shouldn't be dismissed immediately....besides, if
- chip RAM was big enough, such transfers can be minimised to just instructions
- to the custom chips, no? (ideally, of course)
-
- Just a few observations out of the blue......
-
-
- sanford@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au
-