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- From: andrey@cco.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew)
- Subject: Re: World of Commodore summary, 9/12, part 2 (LONG)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.201543.16050@cco.caltech.edu>
- Keywords: new chipsets, WOC
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- References: <1992Sep13.001854.21763@cco.caltech.edu> <1992Sep13.194027.9946@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:15:43 GMT
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- sevigny@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Benoit Sevigny) writes:
-
- >Did anybody talked about 16-bit sampling?
-
- No, they just said sound. This of course doesn't
- preclude sampling at that rate. I think that if you
- want any sort of quality sampling, be prepared to
- pay for it.
-
- >I think they should consider an alpha channel, especially if they plan real
- >time video play back along with enhanced genlock capability.
-
- The AGA chipset has 25-bits, 24 for color and one genlock
- bit which they said is just an alpha bit.
-
- >Any hint about the functionnality of these processors? Will they be used
- >as general purpose coprocessors or they will port AmigaOS on RISC
- >processors?
-
- Nothing.
-
- >Did you hear about virtual memory and multi-processor support?
-
- Peter Cherna said they'd like to get together with the people
- who make VM stuff right now and try to work out some kind of
- solution, however, I think everyone can just about forget
- something on the order of MEMF_VIRTUAL. Nothing on multiprocessor
- support, although if they supported some kind of RPC protocol
- on their 3.1 network extensions, that'd be just dandy.
-
- >I would also like to know if the 4000 will be upgradable to that 'high-end
- >chip set' or if it will be part of a brand new machine?
-
- Louis Eggebrecht (the person who made the presentation) seemed
- to imply that the A4000 is modular to the extent that you will
- be able to upgrade your chipset. Perhaps a Commodore engineer
- could comment on the modularity of the A4000 (please)?
-
- --Andre
-
- --
- Andre Yew andrey@tybalt.caltech.edu (131.215.48.100)
-