Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 Rumor - InfoWorld
Message-ID: <2564@becker.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 90 10:46:14 GMT
References: <28899@dhw68k.cts.com> <1291@corpane.UUCP> <480ec12c.19ac2@wasp.engin.umich.edu> <24903@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <24903@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk) writes:
|In article <480ec12c.19ac2@wasp.engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.UUCP (Ralph Seguin) writes:
|>Hmmm.... Well, I have an Amiga 2500/30.  I am rather pleased with it. That
|>is to say, it's fast fast fast.   I am of the opinion that the 3000 will have
|>features that will merit the higher cost.  I don't think it will be a 25 MHz
|>machine, unless it is an 040 machine.  32 bit slots?   I doubt it.  The only
|>real use for 32 bit slots is for memory.  Can you imagine a 32 bit multifunction
|>card?  32 bit custom chips, however, seem to be an interesting prospect.
|
|Maybe not a 32 bit multifunction card, but I sure could use a couple of
|32 bit card slots for high-speed data acquisition and specialized
|number crunching. I'm not sure that my wishes would be worth the extra
|cost, but I sure wouldn't complain if they put them in.
|
|If it has provision for 32bit memory cards on the bus, then I expect
|I could make very good use of that space for pulling in waveforms at
|a pretty good clip :^)
|
|Also, what about other high-speed applications that could make use
|of a 32 bit path - like coprocessors and graphics accellerators?

	The 2630 card has a header on the top which
	passes the 32-bit bus, so all those applications
	needing hi-speed access to hundreds of megabytes
	of memory or superfast peripherals can use it.

	The 32 bit access to custom chips isn't likely,
	and it's possible the 3000 won't have this either.
	It may have 32-bit access on the motherboard,
	but it'll probably still need to be compatible
	with the current bus. I wonder if it'll have a
	32-bit bus on the intel side (assuming there'll
	still be support for it in the 3000)?


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