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From: ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Anyone got a 'sprite' implementation for NeWS?
Summary: really 34020 comment
Message-ID: <17429@gatech.edu>
Date: 29 Sep 88 00:40:35 GMT
References: <3069@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii)
Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
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>
>BTW, has anyone looked at porting NeWS to the TI 34020/FP chip combination?
>It seems like it should be a real screamer.
>
>					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.
>Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu    Phone:(412)268-{2847,3275} CMU-{BUGS,DARK}

Yes, its been thought of.  Yes, it will be done in one form or another.  Yes,
it will scream.

Unfortunately, the 34020 in not availible yet.  I don't have the announcement 
that I recieved from TI, but i think they were targeting Q1 '89.  Look for
boards for the Mac II and PC/AT around Summer '89.  NeWS i could not guess
on.

Also...the boards will be pretty pricey for a while, as i have heard the 
target price is $500 each for the 34020 and the 34083.  They hope that will
drop an order of magnatude by 1990.


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