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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: For all you who want more advertizing
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Date: 11 Nov 90 06:48:47 GMT
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In article <15725@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>That's silly, and I really doubt that Jay said it, at least in the context
>of an Amiga chipset.

Yep, he did say it -- straight from a guy who had lunch with him.

>longer.  Heck, the first one took what, 5 years or so?  Certainly the design
>tools are better now, but the design is that much more complex if you mean
>a real 1990s type upgrade of the whole set when you say "32 bit chip set".

That's silly :)  [turn about is fair play]

There is an enormous difference between creating a chipset, and adding a 32
bit datapath to an existing design.  It is quite true, however, that he
probably didn't mean a "32 bit chip set" which was twice as fast [Mhz], CMOS,
higher color density, built in Spline and compression capabilities, 8/24
capable, 16-bit eight voice plus DSP and a Toaster-in-Denise that some
folks out in Netland would like :)  [Myself included, of course]

>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
>	Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold	-REM

Please don't take this as serious -- if it was, I'd probably be posting
it in csahardware.  On the other hand, I wouldn't mind a Toaster-in-Denise
if you've got one on the drawing board :)

Incidentally, if it really does take 5 years for a chipset design, and the
new ECS is our update for 1990 -- does that mean I'll have to wait until
1995 for another, or would it be fair to say that the new ECS is a stop-gap
measure for a problem which will be better addressed at some nearer date
[ie. when we have software to support such chips]?

[Hope that was sufficiently vague enough not to warrant a canned-response :) ]

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
"Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought."  -me
								(and Calvin)