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- From: mrubino@engws3.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael N Rubino)
- Subject: Re: World of Commodore summary, 9/12, part 2 (LONG)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.164734.9135@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
- Keywords: new chipsets, WOC
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- Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
- References: <1992Sep13.001854.21763@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 16:47:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep13.001854.21763@cco.caltech.edu> andrey@cco.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew) writes:
- >
- > Eggebrecht, who worked at IBM as a hardware guy
- >before coming to Commodore, presented the future
- >hardware goals of Commodore first. First off was
- >the low-end chipset. He said it would be 2 chips
- >with about 100K transistors. As a comparison, the
- >ECS uses 60K transistors and the AGA uses 80K
- >transistors. It would address 32-bit DRAM and have
- >a 57MHz pixel clock. It would be very much ECS and
- >AGA compatible. Eggebrecht said that backwards
- >compatibility was very important for the low-end
- >stuff. You could have a 4MB floppy drive (he said
- >"four megaBIT", but I think he meant byte), and
- >the chipset would support 32-bit processors.
- >The memory bandwidth would be 8x what it is now,
- >and 72Hz refresh rates are possible in some modes.
- >He said it would be "easy" to do 2x the blitter
- >performance and a 800x600x8 bit 72 Hz modes (!).
- >The low-end chip set would support 16-bit truecolor,
- >meaning you could have 65536 colors at once, and
- >a FIFO'ed serial port would be part of it. The
- >FIFO will clear up a lot of present serial port
- >problems present now. Gee, I wouldn't mind
- >having the low-end stuff now :).
-
- [Lots of very exciting stuff deleted]
-
- I'm glad to see that C= is finally advancing the AMIGA technology. This
- all looks VERY exciting. My only problem with this is, where does the 4000
- and AGA fit in? It seems fairly obvious to me that this new and exciting
- technology will be obsolete reletively soon. So who would want to plunk down
- $3700 for a 4000 with all of this new technology looming on the horizon? Not
- that I planned on buying a 4000. I was not that impressed and looking at the
- specs I knew that C= must have something else up their sleeve. I just didn't
- realize how BIG their sleeves have become.
-
- C= is FINALLY getting it right! I haven't been this excited about the AMIGA
- since it first came out. I just hope they HURRY!
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