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From: ptoper@obelix (Andy Nagy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A3000UX at UniForum?
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Date: 11 Feb 91 21:38:14 GMT
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In article <1991Feb10.031437.26710@Neon.Stanford.EDU>,
torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
	[stuff deleted]
> 
>   Yes, this bugs me as well...
> 
>   Two more questions (if you deign to answer them):
> 
> Has any independent body (who can post to the net) gone out and bought
> one of these A3000UXs which have been available for 3 weeks?
> Does the version of X use the custom chips for graphics acceleration,
> or is it relying solely on the 68030?


	I believe that the one of the UX developers (can't remember which one)
stated that the graphics coprocessors are NOT being used.  It was argued that
the 68030 could/would be able to do the job in about the same amount of time
that it would take to set up the coprocessor with the correct information.
(This is from the depths of my foggy memory.)


> 
> Disclaimer: I neither own, nor intend to buy a NeXT.  I am
> interested in Commodore's intended market for the A3000UX.
> 
> 
> -- 
>
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> Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?      
torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
> "If it weren't for your gumboots, where would you be?   You'd be in the
> hospital, or in-firm-ary..."  F. Dagg



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The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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