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From: jesup@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Next Amiga
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Date: Tue, 14-Apr-87 21:17:45 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 14 21:17:45 1987
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Reply-To: jesup@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
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In article <1674@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>
>It's a lot more practical to leave the chip memory bus alone and run the
>processor out of fast 32-bit memory that runs independent of the chip
>memory.
...
>George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr

	If you are thinking of doing new graphics chips, a 32-bit data bus
WOULD double the bandwidth of chip memory, allowing higher resolution, or more
colors, or more chip-memory bandwidth for the processor, or some combination
of these.  The cost would be 16 pins, a little silicon for internal D-bus,
and a 16 extra bits in the shift registers.  All in all, the cost is low,
assuming you already need to put it in a larger package.

	Randell Jesup
	jesup@steinmetz.uucp
	jesup@ge-crd.arpa