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Not to be "that rabid Jaguar fan which comes out of the woodwork," but the Jaguar's CPU was actually just a plain old Motorola 68000, and the GPU and DSP (audio
by rocky1138 8y ago
Not to be "that rabid Jaguar fan which comes out of the woodwork," but the Jaguar's CPU was actually just a plain old Motorola 68000, and the GPU and DSP (audio [mostly]) mirror the sort of trifecta which we still use on the PC and many consoles today. The two biggest pain points were 1) the bus which connected them all was only 16-bit and 2) the GPU and DSP did not have direct memory access to the main RAM. DMA would have made the Jaguar a serious beast for its time. It's a terrible shame that it didn't include this in its final form.