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- From: aciceran@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (A. J. Ciceran)
- Subject: Re: 4000
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.211618.12928@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 21:16:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep13.043008.25454@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu
- (Marc N Barrett) writes:
-
- > The problem with putting the DSP on an 'optional' card instead of making it
- >standard hardware on at least one system is software. There already is at
- >leastone third-party Zorro II card available which uses the same DSP that
- >Commodore will be using, but how much software is available for it? The
- >Commodore card will almost certainly sell better than the one from the third-
- >party company, but not much better. After about a year, I will be amazed
- >if the installed base of Amigas with Commodore DSP cards is even 1% what
- >it would have been had Commodore released the DSP as standard hardware in
- >at least one system.
-
- It was revealed at the engineering seminar that 3.1 will incorporate support
- for the DSP. The likelihood is also great that the DSP will become the
- de facto standard, as it will invariably be bundled at some point.
-
- And premasticated press releases don't constitute anything. The fact that
- CBM has made the unprecedented move of giving some indication of future
- direction is what most of us have been waiting for. Count your blessings.
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