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From: kent@xanth.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Custom Chips?
Message-ID: <2472@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 14:39:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.2472
Posted: Thu Sep 17 14:39:47 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 10:06:45 EDT
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Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
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In article <2345@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <2948@hoptoad.uucp> slc@hoptoad.UUCP (Steve Costa) writes:
>> 
>> Is there any substance to the rumor that Commodore will make custom chips
>> for the A500 and A2000 that be able to use 1 Meg of chip ram?
>
>Commodore has improved Amiga custom chips under development.  Packaging and
>production volume considerations make it unlikely that these chips will be
>available in A1000 compatible form.
>
>-- 
>George Robbins -

Sob.  Really hope you can change your minds on this one, George.  From
my (graphicsweenie) viewpoint, the constraints of only 512K of chip
ram are the single most severe limitation of my A1000.  I'd like to be
able to correct this misfeature without upgrading to an a2000.  [For
one thing, on my 19" deep computer table (really a tall, library
reading table) the keyboard garage is a necessity of life.]

As a particular example, with maximum rows, columns, bitplanes, dual
playfield, there is almost no room left for storing hidden portions of
windows, in 512K.  Two meg would be a tremendous benefit.

I realize you don't owe us (the initial buyers of the Amiga) a free
lunch, but a little good will would go a long way.

Kent, the man from xanth.

"His expression lit up.  'Hey, you wouldn't be a dope smuggler, would you?'

Rail looked confused.  'Why would anyone wish to smuggle stupidity when
there is so much of it readily available?'"

		-- Alan Dean Foster, GLORY LANE