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From: DMasterson@cup.portal.com (David Scott Masterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RISC coprocessor for Amiga?
Message-ID: <19989@cup.portal.com>
Date: 29 Jun 89 06:10:08 GMT
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In message <00957.AA00957@geo-works>, bryan@geo-works.UUCP writes:
>I was just wondering something.  Would a coprocessor board using one of the
>new RISC chips (Intel 860, Motorola 88000, AMD 29000, whatnot) be feasible
>for the Amiga?  I'm thinking in terms of fast ray-tracing.
>
Come to think of it, whatever happened to the talk of a Transputer board
for the Amiga??  There comes a time when things have to be brought out
regardless of price in order to give people the "warm fuzzy" that this 
system is going somewhere.  What's the status of the Transputer and how
does marketing viewing it??

David Masterson
DMasterson@cup.portal.com