Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov!ames!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Competitiveness. Message-ID: <1990Oct4.003322.10442@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 4 Oct 90 00:33:22 GMT References: <60335@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1990Oct1.054151.6983@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <14824@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 30 In article <14824@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >In article <1990Oct1.054151.6983@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > >>I don't see the dying need for a 68020 box; that architecture is already >>starting to show liver spots. I love my 2000, the 7500 hours I have spent >>at it over 18 months have been lots of fun, but it is time to move up to >>today's hardware speeds in a familiar container. > >Well, as a Technoid type myself, I agree that YOU and I have no need for a >68020 box. [...] I think the old-but-fast technology can have a number of >healthy years at the low or middle end of the market. Probably more >profitable than the high end too. >That's all hypothetically speaking. I have no particular interest in >designing low end systems anymore than I do using them... But I wouldn't >mind seeing Commodore sell a zillion or two. Aw, come on, Dave. It's nice to be working on systems where you have to be worrying about rf losses every time your routing turns a corner, but half the fun of being an engineer is proving you have the experience and skill to do for one buck the same job that takes the other guy two, and do it better. I'd guess the design of a 68020 box that could sell into the A500 market but provide the features of the current A2000 + A2620 including easier expansion and nicer form factor would be challenge enough for anyone. And Commodore would sell a zillion or two. Kent, the man from xanth.