Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!ogicse!milton!hardy!cyliao From: cyliao@hardy.u.washington.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: new apple IIs... Message-ID: <12111@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 2 Dec 90 04:52:55 GMT References: Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu Reply-To: cyliao@hardy.acs.washington.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 23 In article NOWAKO09@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (APPLE //GS - THE POWER TO BE YOUR BEST) writes: >in itself! But let me add these two cents to the discussion on building the >Ultimate Computer. Why not build simply a general purpose platform that allows >any cpu to be plugged in (via cards) and then used? That way what you give >the consumer is not a new computer but EVERY computer on the market! I >realize there are a number of technical hurdles with this...what kind of >data bus, incompatiblity of peripherals, etc..., but in effect what I am >suggesting is building a Universal Emulator in hardware. Then the only thing >we would have to come out with was a new board every couple of years to allow >for new emulations when new architectures come out. Nice idea, but it "didn't" work. Anybody remember that in around year 83, there was a machine called Dimension? You can run Apple II software/ IBM's, and CP/Ms and/or someothers software on it simply by adding the processor board. Great idea for savings on the similar peripheras needed on each kind computer while you can run all the greatest software of any computer of the time on a single machine. But that same machine didn't sell... cyliao@hardy.u.washington.edu o Q. Who am I? o A. A NeXTed person with "small" HD and OD I am "homeless"!? o An Apple // guy (No Kidding) o A plane pilot (by hope)