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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: An interesting idea...
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Date: 12 May 91 21:15:16 GMT
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In article <1991May12.201647.29549@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:

     Well, it sounds kind of mushy, but I was making a joke about the 6502. mIKE
   made it sound as though only nEXT will have 50 mip chips and no other 
   computers will.

Every company will be able to buy these chips, but how many will be
able to build a computer with them and not lose their current software
base?  Is the Amiga OS written in C?  How well will the blitter work
with a 50 mip CPU?  The blitter is already a problem.  What is the
highest graphics mode on the A3000?  How does it compare to the
NeXTstation color, which is a million pixels with 4096 colors.  My
guess is that backwards compatibility is taking up a lot of silicon.
The Amiga probably has about a dozen graphics modes by now.

-Mike