Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Multimedia.. Keywords: Intersecting Arctangent Message-ID: <22142@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 4 Jun 91 02:44:04 GMT References: <62084@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> <62085@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> <1991May22.015324.11494@IRO.UMontreal.CA> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 36 In article <1991May22.015324.11494@IRO.UMontreal.CA> martin@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Daniel Martin) writes: >> There are more than a few Ethernet cards for the A2000/3000 series. Theyre not >> that hard to find... > More than a few? Beside the card from Commodore (actually bought from >Ameristar) which ones are you talking about? He's probably thinking of either the ASDG card or the GVP/Hyrda card. Unlike the Commodore card, these are both DMA rather than CPU driven, so they should in theory perform a tad better than the Amiga card. Not that Ethernet is any kind of load compared to hard disk, but it's non-trivial. > Normally, when the amiga has a working prototype of something, Apple >"discover" it until IBM and Microsoft invent it! :-) It does seem to work that way. IBM and Microsoft seems to somehow have invented 3.5" floppies, windows, multitasking, hard disks, mice, Multimedia, etc. at various points after they were in common use elsewhere. > I wouldn't use NEVER. I think an IBM 34010 based graphic card can >easily do whatever copper-blitter operation I can think of right now on a >1024x1024 256 colors screen. The 34010 is a TI graphics processor, nothing to do with IBM. There are some 34010 boards for the Amiga, more for the PClones. IBM itself doesn't make a graphics board that sophisticated, though their XGA does kind of the same thing a fast 32 bit Amiga with VGA emulation might if wired up to the MCA bus. > // Daniel Martin Universite de Montreal \\ -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "This is my mistake. Let me make it good." -R.E.M.