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- From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AA or AGA in A3000
- Message-ID: <9586@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 06:42:26 GMT
- References: <1992Sep12.222804.8743@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> <1992Sep13.064603.14571@nntp.uoregon.edu> <1992Sep14.050202.15400@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Organization: Commodore Germany
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- In article <1992Sep14.050202.15400@en.ecn.purdue.edu> bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Bevis) writes:
- >
- >But I can't help wondering whether a new drop-in card might not be
- >possible to fix this. Imagine a card with 2Mb of "new chip" RAM, its
- >own local 32-bit chip memory bus, and the new custom chips. It would
- >have its own video output, and interface neatly to the regular bus.
- >I wonder... Maybe... I'm sure someone is already trying to figure
- >out whether this is a realistic idea or not.
-
- That sounds possible. BUT: What you describe is roughly already 60 %
- of the whole mainboard. I guess it wouldn't come very cheap...
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