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From: eeh@public.BTR.COM (Eduardo E. Horvath  eeh@btr.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Good news concerning Amiga graphics
Message-ID: <292@public.BTR.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 90 23:26:45 GMT
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In article <6631.26aa1b1f@jetson.uh.edu> honp9@jetson.uh.edu (Jason Tibbitts/The Blob Shop) writes:
>In article <03348.AA03348@sosaria.imp.com>, wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) writes:
>> Finally a 24bit animation system seems to be available for the Amiga.
>Will someone please tell me just what purpose the Amiga serves in this setup? 
>It seems to be not much more than a case with a power supply, keyboard and disk
>drives.  So what is it that makes the Amiga a good base for this system?  One
>would think that any computer with slots would suffice.
>
>> Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com
>-- 
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>/\ . DISCLAIMER ." Whose opinions did you think there were?" ;   Blumenkraft"

There are two reasons for putting the transputer into an Amiga:

1	The Amiga 2000 has a PC bus (that is seldom being used) as well as 
	a Zorro bus.  The transputers sit on the PC bus and don't use
	Zorro bandwidth communicating with each other.  (This may cause
	problems with the bridgeboard 8^) )

2	The Amiga has a real-time multi-tasking OS, and I understand that this
	is some sort of advantage when it ties in with Helios.


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