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From: mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew W. Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: AMIGA Specs
Summary: Facts, Facts, Facts
Message-ID: <1420@ewu.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 91 01:38:21 GMT
References: <1991Feb3.121355.5874@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <91037.172827CXW148@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Eastern Washington Univ. Cheney WA
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In article <91037.172827CXW148@psuvm.psu.edu>, CXW148@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> The limit on Amiga video ram is due to the inability of the custom chips (the
                                             ^^^^^^^^^
I think the proper term is accessability or addressability, but certainly not
inability.  I have one meg of video ram and two of fast, and I have not run into
any memory problems yet, certainly not any problems with video ram.

> three chips called the Agnes, the Blitter, and the Portia).  These same chips
                                                     ^^^^^^
What the h*ll is Portia, you really need to get your facts straight, there is no
Portia chip.
> are responsible for the multitasking power of the Amiga.  The 68K CPU is free
Don't forget to give credit to the operating system, and the CPU, they also play
a very important part in the Amiga's amazingly powerful system.

> to attend to other operations while Portia handles the port accessing, and the
> Blitter and Agnes operate the graphics and sound. 
Again, read a book and get your facts straight, and remember label the proper task`
with the proper chip, and to include other chips like Gary and Denise, they are
important too. 
                                                     Every limitation on the
> Amiga is due to these three chips, which Commodore has been slow to revise and
> upgrade.  The only exception being the new 'Fat Agnes' which can access 1 meg
> of video memory at a time, and the new ECS (Enhanced Chip Set ).
Don't for get to include Buster, and Super Denise with her amazing programmable
dispisplay modes, you seem to be leaving quite a lot out, and not getting what is 
here corect.
                                                                   While a slight
> improvement, the only thing I can remember about the new capabilities is the
> ability to run Viking Moniterm resolution in 4 colors.  There is also a 50MHz
> accelerator board available for the Amiga, and the Tahiti rewritable optical
> drive which stores 1 gigabyte of information.  The Amiga 3000 has the
> capability to have RAM expansion to a few gigabytes (but I don't remember the
> exact number).                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You make it sound so trivial, it's actully 1.7 gigs, and it's a whole lot!!
.
                  You should both get your facts straight, and read industry-
> wide publications instead of product specific publications.  Every system has
> it's limits.  Read Byte instead.
>                                 Chris Winward
>                            userid CXW148 on PSUVM

You should make your words short and sweet, I sense that you may have had to eat them
in the past.  YOU should readup on what YOU are talking about, go beyond byte, pickup
or borrow a hardware manual, they are much more informative.

Matt Pierce