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

[Dandy]

coldfish wrote:

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Like most closed architectures of the 80's, the Amiga was expensive to upgrade and the parent Co' slow to improve the tech.  

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

Hmmmmmm - "still be paying $$$ for sub Ghz machines" - back in Jan 1989 I bought my first A500 in basic configuration (7.14 mHz; 512 kB RAM, 4 channel stereo sound, 4096 colours, mouse-operatable, graphical OS with preemptive Multitasking) for 1200 DM, while the 80386-PC's in basic configuration (that just had come out) were around 6000 DM (28 mHz; 640 kB RAM, only "beep" sound in mono, only monochrome graphics, no mouse support, MS-DOS).

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"?

[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

[AmiSake]

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

And IIRC there will be another change in the architecture.
More and more tasks will be done by separate chips.
Correct me if I am wrong.

[Fransexy_]

They offloaded big resource hogs like gfx to a seperate processor which typically lives on card with it's own support chips

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

[jj]

Actually there seems to be a definite movement to inergrate everyhting into one chip again.  What with so many cpus now having intergrated pci, and usb etc.

Plus AMD;s announcement of the fusion chip, which will be a combined cpu and gpu

[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

[leirbag28]

@amigadave

 What I heard was something similar to that story.............and it was that Microsoft pressured gateway, that if they were to invest into another computer platform with OS, that Microsoft will pull licencing Windows to Gateway..........incidentally Microsoft also Purchased COREL right when COREL was about to make a Deal with Amiga to create apps or a Linux/AmigaOS.

I don't know if this is true....but is what I heard.........although the details are not exactly as I heard/read them.

But I partially believe this....Microsoft Purchased Blue Ribbon Sound Works when they were writing software for Amiga.