Re: Re[40]: Prohlaseni Amiga Inc.

[Bob Stifter <stifter@mira.cz>]

>> No tak ja ti jendom lehce pripomenu, ze ta "stara architektura" o
>> ktery ty mluvis jsou AGA cipy, PAULA a Zorro 2/3... to je ta stara
>> architektura.
>   AGA chipy, PAULA i Zorro 2/3, at se ti to bude libit nebo nebude, jsou jiz
>bohuzel par let o dost prekonane... 

Kdyby Commodore tenkrat zvladlo Hombre System dokoncit a prodat, dneska bychom
byli v lepsi situaci. http://www.iam.com tam jsou informace o projektech
Dave Haynieho tenkrat jeste v Commodore.

Perhaps Hombre would have kept up; no way to
say now. It was the only interesting thing at Commodore for the '95-'96
market. And it wasn't any more Amiga compatible than your basic PCI with
SVGA cards. Less, if you consider the fact that SVGA supports planar
graphics modes up to at least four bitplanes, Hombre was strictly chunky
pixel, optimized for 16-bits/pixel (and sure, some Amiga ideas lived on
in new form -- four 16-bits/pixel playfields, for example, would have
certainly kicked some serious butt).

A nebo aspon AAA...

AAA was a set of four ground-up new chips. Andrea did the Alice/Agnus
function, Mary did the Paula function, Monica did the Denise/Lisa
function, and Linda was something new. You could put together the four
chips for a full 32-bit system that could hit display rates of around
800x600 non-interlaced, or use two Monicas and two Lindas to make a
hybrid 32/64-bit system, which could hit 1280x1024 @ 60Hz with VRAM (at
something like 10-11 bits/pixel max).

Mary was AAA's answer to Paula. A quick list of features:

	Serial ports, two, with buffering.
	
	Audio, with up to eight channels, assignable L/R (but not a pan
	function), up to 16-bit per channel into internal 18-bit sum
	with 16-bit DAC and /2 or /4 digital prescalar, 18-bit digital
	output.
	
	Floppy with raw, MFM, CD, and digital radio decoding done
	on-chip; support for HD and ED floppies, transfer rates up to
	about 11MB/s (roughy fast enough for ST-506 HD, 1xCD, or
	Ethernet).
	
	Interrupt mixing, including a third general purpose interrupt.

	As with all AAA chips, DMA slots are dynamic, not fixed.


>   Svet PC _neni_ jen svetem "operacnich systemu" typu Win95. Beha na nem
>i nekolik _opravdovych_ OS, jako napriklad Linux a FreeBSD, ktere ani pri
>nejmensim takovymi problemy netrpi a na rozdil od soucasneho AmigaOSu maji
>dulezite veci typu ochrana pameti mezi procesy a mezi uzivateli (coz bohuzel
>nejde do AmigaOSu ani rozumne dodelat ... nechci tvrdit, ze AmigaOS neni

Veci, ktere mely byt v OS3.5 jsou k dispozici na Aminetu a kazdej
uzivatel si nejakou tu utilitku nainstaloval uz davno.

A abych zase citoval, Dave [Haynie] prohlasil nedavno, ze pridat MP
do AmigaOS by mu trvalo mesic, a to se v systemu tolik nevyzna.

StB




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