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From: bear@bucsb.UUCP (Blair M. Burtan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RISC coprocessor for Amiga?
Message-ID: <2747@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 89 18:45:20 GMT
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In article <0957.AA0957@geo-works> bryan@geo-works.UUCP (Bryan Ford) 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.

VLSI Technologies has a RISC chip set for serious graphics capabilities
like Ray-Tracing.  The poop-sheet has a nifty image on it.  This might
be a bit easier to incorporate into a card for the 2000 video slot.

                                 - Bear