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- From: DennyA@cup.portal.com (Denny Lee Atkin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: aga in 500/2000/3000?
- Message-ID: <65941@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 17:47:51 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <35077@cbmvax.commodore.com> <9585@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
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- >Yeah, I mentioned that when I heard this new name, but no one around here
- >seemed to remember it but me. I actually like the original chipset name,
- >"Pandora".
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- The really amusing thing is that the name was explained by Commodore
- marketing to me this way: They didn't want to use AA as the name,
- because PC graphics architectures were known by initials, and they
- wanted to differentiate the Amiga chips from PC chips. Thus the longer
- name, "Advanced Graphics Architecture."
-
- Nobody realized that Advanced Graphics Architecture would be
- abbreviated to AGA? Now tell me, which is easier to confuse with CGA,
- EGA, VGA, and XGA: the name "AA" or the name "AGA"?
-
- Sigh.
-
- Mort Kevelson calls 'em the AGAtha chips. :-)
-
- >Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Cool Advanced High-End Systems You Can't See Yet)
- > "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh BIX: hazy
- > "We're not hitchhiking anymore, we're riding" -Ren Hoek
- >
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