Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <22516@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 17 Jun 91 21:36:43 GMT References: <1991Jun15.112510.17324@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun15.121453.5511@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 30 In article <1991Jun15.121453.5511@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: > I don't expect Comodore to ever release a 32-bit chipset. I expect them >to work on DIG. I'd rather have add-in boards that are constantly >evolving rather than rely on one companies product. Regardless of what Commodore does or does not do in the way of new Amiga chip sets, RTG (Re-Targetable Graphics, what everyone really wants, the "Workbench on a ULowell card" level of graphics support) is more important. If you have the ability to add pretty much any graphics board and run pretty much any graphics program on it, Commodore built-in graphics chips won't matter all that much, anymore than Apple's built-in graphics matter. >A 32-bit chipset wouldn't work on the A500 which is Commodore's bread and >butter of the Amiga line. A 32 bit Amiga chipset could live on a 16 bit machine just as easily as the current 16 bit chipset lives on the 32 bit A3000. No big deal, technically. However, you can be assured that a $150 chip set isn't going to wind up in a $500 computer. Amiga chips can set the base level of an Amiga computer's graphics capabilities, and in fact they have to suitable for base level configurations. But they shouldn't be the only game in town. And since there's no indication Amiga developers are interested in going the PClone route, dumping graphics.library and supporting each graphics board on their own, I suspect RTG is necessary to bring this fact "home" to everyone. -- 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.