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#3D-RISC

    21-Dec-94 12:14:38
Sb: #179302-#3D-RISC
Fm: Dale Larson 76702,654
To: John Chang 73023,2000
Nothing about RISC or AAA will inherently break all software. Most software that works with graphics cards today would probably have worked fine under AAA. Dumping a RISC into an Amiga and running a full 040 emulator on it wouldn't break much of anything, but there wouldn't be any point (an 060 would be faster). To get the benefits of RISC, you've got to port apps to native RISC. If you've got to do that AND adopt to a new chipset which isn't Amiga-like, what's the point? I mean, you might as well fix all the yucky DOS stuff we've inhereted, add VM and protected memory, change the exec message passing scheme to suit that (and to be networkable), etc. At this point, there is no reason to call it an Amiga or to think that it is any easier to port Amiga software to it than any other software. No reason you'd need to own any of the old Commodore. Of course, I'd be all for working on such a machine. Anyone got a billion or two lying around unused?