Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!fernwood!portal!cup.portal.com!FelineGrace From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A2500 vs. A3000 Message-ID: <41360@cup.portal.com> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 08:30:04 PDT Organization: The Portal System (TM) Distribution: world References: <1991Mar30.190342.7819@ariel.unm.edu> <20299@cbmvax.commodore.com> <20677@cbmvax.commodore.com> Scott suggests that if you need a "ms-dos powerhouse" (!) then you should look at a PC clone and that CBM would gladly sell you one. I think that is an excellent marketing policy and should be shouted from the rooftops! But ah.....not until there is a very fast, very cheap, very easy-to-set-up, and very integrated means of hooking the two types of machines together. I suggest that all PC clones from CBM come standard with SCSI, that both the Amiga DOS and PC DOS handle communication over the SCSI bus, that utilities be included with the machines to network *ALL* machines made by CBM together (can you say 'NFS'?) in the same type of Operating-Supported way that Apple's Macs can be connected (only faster! :-) ). Here is equipment that I would buy because I have a need for it. And I haven't bought much CBM equipment lately because it doesn't meet my needs at home or at work. I think the trade rags would eat it up. There'd be lots of talk about it. And I think the major pieces are already in place. Rigid disk blocks. A solid SCSI design. TCP/IP and NFS software. Looks to me like the R&D is done, some redesign to a few PCB is needed and then lots of testing. Say an optional software/hardware package available in '92 with full hardware/OS support by next generation of machine/OS? Say sometime in '93? Comments? Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com I always *liked* the idea of a bridgeboard but I need the assurance of 'cloneness' for MS-DOS development. Plus it is too damn slow and expensive. Give me a tightly integrated PC/Amiga and I might be able to buy some for development. Or sell a drop-in Amiga for the PC. That I know I could buy!