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From: robin@sabre.austin.ibm.com (Robin D. Wilson/1000000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore, Amiga, Apple, and MAC
Message-ID: <1917@awdprime.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 90 18:45:26 GMT
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>In article <15003@snow-white.udel.EDU> BARRETT%FOREST.ECIL.IASTATE.EDU@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>>Unlike the Amiga 3000, however, all of these custom chips run at the full speed 
>>of the microprocessor.

I thought that on the A1000/500/2000 line the custom chips ran 2x as fast as
the main processor.  So Apples manage to slow their down, and set some new 
records for speed; hmm.  The real speed increase is in the rate at which their
marketing mumbo-jumbo has proliferated.

BTW, how do you know that the A3000's custom chips don't "run at the full
speed of the microprocessor"?  Has this stuff been announced already and 
they left me out?


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