Author: Steve G (clockworkstudios.demon.co.uk)
Date: 06-20-1999 09:34
Well,
I'm really surprised to see all the old wounds open and festering here....!
I just gotta say - the NEW Amiga specs are truly off base!
700 million polygons per second - we are talking a bus bandwidth above 40 GB per second - maybe in science fiction.
And where pray tell would a machine obtain the RAM and CPU power required to handle 700 million polygons, to X and W buffer them, to texture them, to light them, to bump map them and display them? What sort of CPU could handle the math to get them going - not a Pentium 3 nor a G4 - or even four of them at once!
Does Gateway have a hidden superconductor factory somewhere? 0.18 micron chips are about as good as it gets at the moment - with about a 40% yield at best. You'd need one as big as your head, with a cooling system to match to get the sort of GFLOPs needed to power the system I've seen floated here.
The specs for the new Amiga have to be speculative at best - and almost certain to be somewhat eqivalent to the new G4 Macs - if they ever happen at all.
And even if they do get the mahines out dya really think developers will drop the PC and Playstation II to develop AMIGA products?
sTeVE
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