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- From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AAchip for 3000(was Re: Offic. new C= Announcements!)
- Message-ID: <mwm.1sq7@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 19:37:41 GMT
- References: <Mike_Noreen.07hp%cave@sweden.eu.net> <1992Aug25.205111.1196@pro-freedom.cts.com> <1992Aug27.233643.21140@microsoft.com> <dvaz.030n@dvtown.UUCP>
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- In <dvaz.030n@dvtown.UUCP>, dvaz@dvtown.UUCP (David Vazquez) wrote:
- > Same for me. I just finished paying off my A3000/25. The last thing I need
- > is to have to go off and buy a new machine just the get the better graphics.
-
- So don't. CBM isn't forcing you to buy new hardware. Nobody in their
- right mind will be writing software that _requires_ the new chip set
- for quite a while (I'd guess between a year or two). And your machine
- (and mine) will be just as usefull after they announce a new chip set
- as it was before. So what's the rush?
-
- <mike
-
- > One thing I would like to see C= do is use the PC approach of putting a ma-
- > chine together. A card for the disk controllers, one for the video, one
- > for serial and parallel, etc.
-
- That approach predates the IBM-PC by quite a bit. DEC minis have been
- doing it for a long time. My second micro (bought when the Apple-II+
- was a hot machine) had a 20+ slot bus with a 24-bit address space, and
- _everything_ plugged into the bus: CPU cards, all IO controllers, the
- front panel.
-
- Of course, that's _not_ what PC clones are doing. As far as I know,
- none of them have put a CPU on the bus; most put a couple of I/O
- controllers on the motherboard, some have disk and/or mouse ports on
- the motherboard. The latest thing is to build a proprietary bus on the
- motherboard for video, so you can get CPU-speed access to the video
- card. Sound familiar?
-
- <mike
-