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From: monty@sagpd1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - why hasn't C= made them faster?
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.150928.21660@sagpd1>
Date: 9 Apr 91 15:09:28 GMT
References: <CPETTERB.91Apr2105151@mickey.glacier.sim.es.com> <1991Apr2.235710.13984@news.iastate.edu> <41008@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
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In article <41008@cup.portal.com> Fletcher@cup.portal.com (fletcher sullivan segall) writes:
>You are forgetting the basic history of the Amiga.  Commodore didn't 
                                                     ^
    Me thinks you are the one forgetting history!    ^ This part is true,but..

>design the chips in the Amiga, and wouldn't be able to afford to design
>an equialent chip set from scratch in any case.  The custom chips were
>hand optimized in NMOS for a home video game.  As such they were designed
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
	This part, if you will remember was the cover story to hide development.
    R.J Michals (sp) and crew were designing a home COMPUTER. The keyboard 
    and expansion ports were not an after thought, they had (and have stated
    such) always designed a COMPUTER, not a video game. It was CBM who cut
    back the design (i.e. removed internal expansion) to make it less
    expensive to produce. CBM did not have the foresight at that time
    (I believe they have since changed their views) to actively pursue the
    COMPUTER market.

>to be as economical as possible on a very large scale production.  The
>chip set is considerably more complex than the most advanced display 
>cards available for the PC... 
>

Monty Saine