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Article #2958Re: TECH: Amiga VR?
From: yo'man
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 20:37
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 20:37
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with all this discussion of amiga vs. ibm I just thought i'd spread the word about the new atari falcon that's out (in Europe, US soon). It's based on a 16Mhz 68030 which admittedly is not high performance; but the clincher is it has built in 2 channel 16 bit A/D and D/A hardware, complete w/ Motorola DSP56k. The audio hardware will do your 3d audio system pretty nicely (I've built one on a 56k w/ 2/3 the clock speed already), and since it has coprocessor similar to the amiga, you could possibly squeeze quite a few polygons per second. SRP: $799. We're not talking '486 power, but not bad price/perf ratio. If anyone wants more info on this system just send me a note. Basically though it seems to be a poor man's NeXT. Andrew Wheeler Applied Research Laboratories University of Texas at Austin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!stein.u.washington.edu!hlab From: griff@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (yo'man) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: Re: TECH: Amiga VR? Date: 5 Jan 93 20:37:07 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX Lines: 20 Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu Message-ID: <1ikvlmINNg6f@shelley.u.washington.edu> References: <1ib855INNsiu@shelley.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu Originator: hlab@stein.u.washington.edu