Please confirm this rumor if you can (with facts, not fiction or opinions)

[dammy]

Quote:


    coldfish wrote:

    If the computer industry had followed the C=/Amiga path, we'd still be paying $$$ for sub Ghz machines.



hey, we still are !

Not all of us are.  :devildance:

Dammy

[dammy]

Given this price/performance ratio advantage of the Amiga, would you still say "we'd still be paying $$$ for sub Ghz machines", "if the computer industry had followed the C=/Amiga path"?

They in fact, did follow it.  They offloaded big resource hogs like gfx to a seperate processor which typically lives on card with it's own support chips.

Dammy

[dammy]

If they offload the CPU, why if want to use the full potential of new gfx card you need a fast CPU? you still need a lot of Cpu power to feed the GFX, not like the Amiga custom chips

Yeah, it's FEEDING the GPU, not processing it FOR the GPU which would be the old school PC way of doing it.  Look at folding@home's ATI driver, that taps into a massive FLOP capabilities which can be 20x to 40x faster then a compariable CPU.  That's not Amiga like?

Dammy