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From: garygfx@cix.compulink.co.uk (Gary Fenton)
Subject: Re[2]: DraCO's RISC chip for Amiga
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blaise@lois.dti.com wrote:
>I'm entirely biased by the fact that we sell Alpha workstations, but
>I don't get it. When you talk about an Alpha processor that runs at
>450 MIPS, you are probably talking about the 21064A. If you put
>enough memory and cache alongside this thing so that it becomes a
>reasonable renderer, then you're in the price range of cheap 21064A
>workstations.
The Alpha card will cost 2000 to 3000 DM (German currency) so I guess that's
under $2000? (sorry if my previous post gave a different figure). This is
cheaper than an Alpha WorkStation even if you add RAM. (Unless you're
selling Alphas at really good prices? :-)
>NT (if it is, please ignore my ENTIRE post), and therefore has, as of
>this moment, exactly zero applications.
Correct. A library is being written (eg alpha.library) which will allow
programmers to write apps which utilise the Alpha as a co-pro. I'll post
more info if I get any. I'm just a journalist! :-)