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- From: 8800529@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
- Subject: Re: AA chipset in the A3000 -> I expect it!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.232150.935@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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- References: <talan.02w7@tension.UUCP> <1992Aug31.101827.25307@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:21:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.101827.25307@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams) writes:
- >In article <talan.02w7@tension.UUCP> talan@tension.UUCP (Dave Bicking) writes:
- >>There's been a lot of speculation on the new AA Chipset and whether it would
- >>actually work on an A3000 computer. I, as a recent purchaser of an A3000,
- >>expect it to be available - in the current slots.
- >
- >Don't like to spoil your party but..
- >
- >Just after the introduction of the Amiga 3000 I had a conversation
- >in email with a guy from C= who used to post to the net occassionally
- >(but has now disappeared, maybe fired?). His name was Bob Raibel
- >(I know I've got his last name slightly wrong) from C= LSI design.
- >
- >I had mailed him to ask if the new chipset they were
- >working on would work with the A3000. He told me that any new chips
- >would have a different shape and pin-out and the only way to get them
- >into the 3000 would be via a Zorro III slot. He wasn't even
- >sure if that was possible and said I would have to ask Dave Haynie
- >about it, which I never got around to doing.
- >
- >I wish now I had have kept the mail, though I guess it wouldn't have
- >been in the spirit of Usenet to post it anyway.
- >
- >>At _that_ time, they were expecting it to fit in the A3000
- >>motherboard. They said that the Motherboard's chip socket had a 32-bit
- >>bandwidth, while the ECS still only used 16 (eg: they thought ahead).
- >
- >I hope you are right, but I still can't see a 32 bit chip fitting into
- >a 16 bit chip's socket. Dave has said as much when he said "You can't
- >grow 16 bits" a few months ago.
-
-
- In Sydney there is an A3000 with WB 3.0 and 256 colors displayable
- It's in a Video specialist store that has developer status with CBM.
- I fyou approach them as if you don't know what this "Amico" :-)
- computer is they will discribe to you the fact that it has 256 colors !!
- They won't say how they get it because they have developer status
- ie. NDA. So not all is lost.
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- >>Dave
- George
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