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From: vsolanoy@ozonebbs.UUCP (Victor Solanoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How many MIPS do we need? (Was AmigaDOS and NeXT trash)
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Date: 11 Apr 91 17:24:45 GMT
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griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin) writes:

> >In article <2wBuZ3w164w@ozonebbs.UUCP> vsolanoy@ozonebbs.UUCP (Victor Solano
> 
> >   Personally, the home market doesn't need anything like a 14 mip 68040, a 
> >   SPARC-2, or an RS-6000...  most businesses probably don't need it either.
> 
> Why not?!  Something as simple and mundane as Desktop Publishing benefits
> greatly from a fast machine!  And many, many people are starting to do
> 3D raytracing and animation for small but important projects, demonstrations,
> what-have-you.  Nothing as fancy as a dedicated graphics junkie or
> professional would do with $$$, but still nice stuff.  A 68040 machine 
> sitting in your spare bedroom will allow you to do rendering at close
> to real time so you don't spend hours, days, weeks on something every
> time you change your mind because it didn't turn out exactly the way you
> wanted.
> 
> -- 
> Dan Griffin
> griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu

 
You seem to have missed the point...  there are people who use computers, 
and those that just use computers.... if you are getting at what I'm trying 
to say.
 
The majority of people who do use the computers in the here and now do their 
homework on it, do simple tasks on it, etc....  In other words, the everyday 
Joe really doesn't have a need for the extreme computation speed for 
raytracing and graphics work.  As far as graphics goes, I think the majority 
of computer users use their computers for gaming... which may explain why 
the gaming market is one of the largest.
 
I do understand that possibly in the near future (or sooner) that computers 
will change to be faster and better than it's predecessors.  That's been the 
case so far....  it really wouldn't make any sense to have a world of AT 
class machines (or Amiga 3000 class) and reintroduce the old IBM PC (or the 
C-128).
 
Victor