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From: glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Research and Development.
Keywords: Marc Barrett.
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.094914.8441@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 7 Jan 91 09:49:14 GMT
References: <1991Jan3.003449.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> <9793.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
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In article <9793.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
>Quoted from <1991Jan3.003449.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> by taab5@ccvax.iastate.edu:
>>    CASE 1: THE CMOS CHIPSET AND THE ATARI LYNX
>
>    CBM has to remain backward compatible now. Will a correctly written
>    program on the 1000 also work as is on a Lynx?

A Lynx only has a resolution of less than 320*200 (can't remember
off hand).  C= needs their next chip set to do 1024*768.  The
Lynx can look really fast because it isn't moving much graphics 
around.  It might be a good game machine... but that's not what we
want our Amigas to be.  

Look I am certain Bob is working very hard on the new chip set, but
flaming the old one on the net won't help much. 

>>    CASE 5: HIGH-DENSITY FLOPPY DRIVES:
>
>    Why?

Because people in business use Macs with 1.44 MEG disks, and think
the Amiga is pretty poor because it can't use them! I speak
from experience.

>>                                    -MB-
>--
>*** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG.        jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
>***     "Snake through the chaos with a smooth noodle map" - Devo       ***

Colin.