Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!samsung!umich!sharkey!msuinfo!convex.cl.msu.edu!jap From: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: asd Message-ID: <1990Dec23.043749.2937@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 23 Dec 90 04:37:49 GMT References: <925@boing.UUCP> <7335@sugar.hackercorp.com> <6301@amiga.UUCP> <1990Dec22.143657.21505@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 31 xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >[In response to jimm's article] >Rather than go with an "industry 'standard'", I'd guess Commodore would >be well advised to have one of the real graphics heavies take a break Good Idea >To the other question of pokey performance on the A500, it is long ago >time for Commodore to stop selling a configuration so minimal that every >attempt to do software improvements is blocked by hardware limitations. >It is plain dumb in today's market to sell a machine with under 2Mbytes >of memory, for example, when the A500's limited memory is harming not >only Commodore but also 3rd party software development. Well, no. It is a good thing to have a low end machine that can run much of the same software as the high end. Low end -> many more people can buy it, which in turn helps finance CBM. If your applicationmust have oodles of memory, a 68040, 100meg harddisk, etc, etc, etc, then you should say so in the advertisments. So instead of CBM excluding a bunch of people from the Amiga market in general (including all current owners of