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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: COMDEX Announcements
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Date: 22 Nov 88 08:43:10 GMT
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In article <7718@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>In article <13541@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>: [ a bunch of CBM announcements at COMDEX ]
>:TITLE: Amiga(r) High Resolution Color Graphics Card
>: [ ... ]
>:*	Programmable resolutions up to 1024x1024 pixels.
>:
>	I sense some hidden information here, such as, "Yeah, you can get 1K
>x 1K, but only in monochrome."  Which isn't to say that's bad...

NO, NO, this stuff is 1K x 1K, 8-bitplanes + 2 overlay bitplanes (like
sprites).  Rich Miner was showing it off at COMDEX. It's HOT!  I would
have a use for it TODAY, if it were made available.

>:*	A Texas Instruments(tm) TMS34010 high speed graphics system processor
>:	executing graphics commands at up to 6 million instructions per
>:	second.
>:
>	Is this good?  The PC parket is jumping all over it, and therefore I
>can't help but feel there's something wrong with it...

It IS good.  Finally one could do "serious" CAD/CAM stuff.  The TI blitter
is FAST! Let me look it up in my thesis ... here it is:

Best case for BitBlt: 23.5 Million bits/sec. with VRAM (video RAM). 
This is with the 34010 from 1986.  I don't know if TI has upgraded the chip 
with a faster clock.

>:*	The industry standard TIGA graphics library provides a library
>:	of high speed graphics routines which execute on the TMS34010.
>:
>	TIGA?  Never heard of it.  Could someone provide details?

This is the Texas Instruments Graphics Application library (or something
like that). When I was working on my thesis on blitters I got all the
development stuff for the 34010 from TI.  The development tools for this
puppy are impressive.  These include libraries and a full C compiler
for the 34010. Rich confirmed to me that his group is porting the C compiler
and the TI tools to the Amiga.  If Rich is still reading the net, he could
give all the tech details.

>:TITLE: AMIX(TM)- UNIX(tm) System V Compatible for Amiga(r) 2500UX
>: [ ... ]
>:	standard development tools include:
>:
>:	cc          make          lint
>:	sdb         yacc          terminfo
>:
>	Well, if you're going to include 'yacc', then where's 'lex'?  Or is
>'yacc' really 'bison'?

Of course, lex is there.

>:*	Standard utilities and text processing tools include:
>:
>:	tbl            eqn          vi         man
>:
>	Where's 'troff' and 'nroff'?  I thought 'tbl' and 'eqn' were macro
>packages for the *roff programs.

I think it was in the original announcement.  A few lines where lost due
to noise on the line with BIX.  Sorry about that.  Think about AMIX as
a vanilla UNIX SysV with a proprietary "very fast" window system.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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