Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!cica!travis!greg From: greg@travis.cica.indiana.edu (Gregory TRAVIS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4 Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 91 19:18:51 GMT References: <1991Feb7.151106.4795@cc.helsinki.fi> <1991Feb8.212329.25216@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991Feb11.145513.4832@cc.helsinki.fi> <12015@helios.TAMU.EDU> Sender: news@cica.cica.indiana.edu Lines: 35 n368bq@tamuts.tamu.edu (Raoul Rodriguez) writes: -The reason that the Next was the first (or one of the first) companies to come -out with a '040 machine was because the machine does not use the chip it -fullest potentials, it didn't have to wait for he more sophistocated -functions to become bullet proof in order to run their machines. The Amiga -on the other habd (along with the rest of the world), is willing to wait -for the '040 to be totally ironed out before sticking one in their -products, becuase they will use the '040 to it's fullest potential... Raoul, I'm sorry but this is pure nonsense. NeXT came out with an 040 machine first because of their, umm, "relationship" to Motorola. Can you please elaborate on what the "more sophistocated" (sic) functions are? As far as I know, there are no as-yet-unimplemented instructions in the 68040 chips that are shipping. The point about Amiga waiting for a fully-featured 040 doesn't wash either. Most all Amiga software currently in production demands nothing more of the CPU than what a generic 68000 with no FPU will give. After all, that's the configuration in the vast majority of Amiga's out there. I'm willing to say that the 68040 currently supports all the instructions in the original 68000 repertoire. -As for the Slab, I thought Steve Jobs would ahve learned from his first -real big mistake in making the original Mac unexpandable, but no, -he comes out with the slab, and unexpandable well, slab... Even the I think Peter DaSilva already made this clear. The Slab has two serial ports on it. It also has built-in ethernet (two kinds). A DSP port. And it has SCSI. I would like to see a list of what you think might not be "interfaceable" (sorry) to the Slab through one of those four -- Gregory R. Travis Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405 greg@cica.cica.indiana.edu Center for Innovative Computer Applications Card-carrying member of the Usenet Civil Liberties Union