Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!haven!wam!ddev From: ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A rough future for the Amiga??? I think not. Message-ID: <1990Apr10.023937.8350@wam.umd.edu> Date: 10 Apr 90 02:39:37 GMT References: <16192@snow-white.udel.EDU> <1990Apr8.013940.12984@wam.umd.edu> <10715@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET Posting) Reply-To: ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) Organization: UMCP Lines: 30 In article <10715@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax (Andy Finkel) writes: >In article <1990Apr8.013940.12984@wam.umd.edu> ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) writes: >>use coprocessors to help relieve the main processor. No. The actual quote is >>as follows: "...It is also the first personal computer to have two >>additional processors - with the power of two additional personal computers - >>to manage the flow of information inside." Now consider: Do the Amiga's >>blitter, copper, etc. themselves have the power of additional personal >>computers??? Nope, they don't. The IIfx uses, I believe, two 6502 to > >The Amiga 500, 1000 and 2000 each have a 6502 as well as a 68000. > >(the A2500 has a 6502, a 68000, and a 68020 or 68030; however, >since the 68000 and 68020/030 are not active at the same time) > >To get a machine with two additional processors, we'd have to >go back to the C128D, which its 6510, its Z80, and its 6502 running >the disk drive. OK, in each of the above examples, I count only 1 additional processor which operates concurrently wrt i/o, and that meets the Apple ad's requirement:"two additional processors...with the power of two additional personal computers." After all, the Z80 in the C128 only runs under C/PM, during which time the 6510 does nothing wrt i/o, right? BTW, I'm not trying to cut on the Amiga or praise the Mac. I just wanted to point out that this thread started out with a misquote, and no evidence to back it up (other than 'we all know this is a lie...'). -- Don DeVoe ddev@epsl.umd.edu