Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!intelhf!ichips!inews!iwarp.intel.com!gargoyle!chinet!saj From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Nice machine Summary: You should work with these guys...you think alike Message-ID: <1991Mar08.150555.27950@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 8 Mar 91 15:05:55 GMT References: <1991Mar05.201755.17698@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX Lines: 20 In article mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: >In article <1991Mar05.201755.17698@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes: > I was just at the Pittsburgh Conference (an analytical chemistry meeting), > and saw a gas chromatography/mass spectrometry workstation based on an > Amiga 3000 with a 50 MHz 68030 accelerator board. WOW. Sorry, I forget > the company name. > >That sounds rather strange - a 50MHz 68030 card just doesn't add that >much extra oomph to a 3000; I can't concieve of there being enough of >a market for anyone to bother designing one. Unless maybe it was an >040 card with a fast 030 hacked into it somehow. Or lots of on-board >static RAM, or something. > It may well have been an in-house custom job. They told me that they'd tried an '040, and were planning to go to it eventually, but that the extra power showed up some bad spots in their software (I wish I remembered the company name. I've known a couple of the guys there from trade shows for almost 10 years, but they keep changing companies). This is from an instrument company who expect to sell a few tens of thousands of dollars of their real product once they get the 'camel's nose' into a lab.