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From: grx1042@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Steve Snodgrass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000
Message-ID: <89.25fc5d2e@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 90 07:38:37 GMT
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In article <13479@baldrick.udel.EDU>, BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:

>    I can say one thing about the Amiga 3000: it had better be powerful. 
>  
>    By 'extemely powerful' I mean the following features:
>    A 68040 running @ 25Mhz, 32-bit chipset running at the same speed,
> and a full-color resolution of at least 1280x800 non-interlaced.  If
> Commodore does wait a full year before releasing this machine, it had 
> better not use the 68030.  By time this machine hits the market, it
> will be competing head-to-head with 68040 and 80486 machines, so it
> must also use a 68040 in order to be competitive.  

I agree with most of this reasoning, but don't count on that kind of standard
resolution.  Extremely high-res color means big bucks & big RAM.  A quick
calculation shows that a 1280 x 800 screen with only 4096 colors (12 planes)
occupies 1.5 Megs for a single still image.  The A3000 had better have a 32
bit chipset though.  If they don't redesign that, the whole thing is probably
a waste of time.  That's one bottleneck that needs to be eliminated. 

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