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From: swarren@eugene.uucp (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ami Fantasy Wishlist
Keywords: Ami future fantasy (long)
Message-ID: <1561@convex.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 89 14:43:30 GMT
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Reply-To: swarren@eugene.UUCP (Steve Warren)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx.
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In article <6203@ingr.com> phil@ingr.UUCP (Phil Johnson) writes:
>   3.  A 32-bit, 68040-based Amiga with 8 megabytes of CHIP ram, 32 megbytes
>       of main memory, 1280 x 1024 screen resolution, 16 million colors with a
>       16 million color palette, built-in SCSI-2 interface, 2 serial and 2
>       parallel ports, a Digital signal processor-based audio subsystem, 
>       enhanced graphics and a hardwired unit ID that can be queried by  ID 
>       encoded software (This should eliminated the majority of the piracy 
>       issues).  It has worked elsewhere.

As long as we are fantasizing (considering that 68040s won't even be sampling
for some time - for all we know they are a gleam in a Motorola designer's eye),
why stop at 32 Mbytes?  I mean 020s and ^ can address 2 Gigabytes, so why
put a limit at 32?  Make it 1 Gig so Amy can have that one address line free.

(Now remember this is total fantasy :-).  Multiport and interleave all chip
memory.  Give the blitter a dedicated port into chip ram, so it can munge
screens at warp speed with no contention.

Now all the realists in Amiga-land may want to stomp all over this fantasy.
But I say that fantasies like this are what brought the Amiga to life in the
first place.  Why not dream a little?  The reality may not match the dream,
but so what?  The higher your expectations are the more likely it is that
at least some of your hopes will see the light of day.

--Steve
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