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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68030+68040 on A3000: is it possible?
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Date: 8 May 91 16:23:58 GMT
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In article <1991May7.011720.26702@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <21302@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>>What would make
>>them all a little easier to deal with would be retargetable graphics, where
>>each application program can interrogate the graphics system, find out what 
>>graphics capabilities are available, and act accordingly, without any need to
>>know exactly what hardware is in place.  In time, that will happen.
>>					  -------------------------
>	Aahhhh! Now we've GOT him!

Well, without going into too much detail, I can safely say this will happen
because it's a requirement of the Amiga market, and becoming more so as more
frame buffer type devices appear.  Since most software companies working on
Amiga stuff are not interested in pursuing the IBM-PC route and writing 
specific drivers for each board out there, some kind of retargetable graphics
system is a virtual certainty.  Ideally, Commodore sets the standard, since
that way, it comes with every Amiga and can be more integrated into the OS.
But if Commodore doesn't do it, I expect the third parties will ultimately
agree upon something of their own design.  There are a number of groups in
the Amiga industry working on "collective" projects.  While this is certainly
larger than the ones I have heard of, it's not at all beyond the scope of this
kind of project.


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