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Offline olegil

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Re: Amiga 5000 ?
« on: July 18, 2003, 09:04:29 AM »
Coldfire 800MHz would rock, as would PCI/AGP/SDR (or DDR) etc.

But AAA or whatever just ain't feasible. Does anyone here honestly think anyone can go up against nVidia, Ati and Matrox, in their price range? I mean, they're practically giving away Radeon 7500s, do you have ANY idea how much faster than AGA that card is? It eats anything you can come up with for breakfast.


So basically, this would be stamped as "another PC clone" by everyone (especially Shawn, who still hasn't grasped the concept of "Zorro bus").

Come on, Zorro is 16 bit with 24bit addresses. The 32 bit extension is done the old fashioned way with double-pumped clock, which surely adds as much latency as PCI any day of the week.

Forget Zorro and AA(A(+)), and let's just follow the industry standards. The trick is to adopt the right standards at an early time. The day is past when the Amiga could create its own standards and be a success...