Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <1991May12.190706.28411@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 12 May 91 19:07:06 GMT References: <1991May7.235145.12420@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991May8.013806.14640@neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 49 In article <1991May8.013806.14640@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: >dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes: > >>In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >>> >>> Unless nExt is making 30 mip custom chips, I think every system will soon >>> have 50 mip chips (that is if they have enough expansion slots; I would >>> hate to have to throw away a computer just because it has no expansion >>> slots). >>> >>>nExt doesn't make microprocessors they buy them from Motorola. You >>>know, the company that makes the CPU for the Amiga. Well, I was commenting that unless nExt makes its own chips, every other computer will be getting chips from Motorola. You know, the company that makes the CPU for the Mac, Amiga, nExt, Atari, Genesis... And that is only if the computers have expansion slots. > >> Oh, I thought the Amiga uses a 6502 chip. Are you sure Motorola makes 6502s? > > I hope you're being sarcastic here (no :-)'s though?) > Yes, I was being sarcastic. There are two types of people in the world. Some say a joke, and then comment that they made a joke. There is another group of people that makes jokes and relies upon the insight and intelligence of the listener to understand it. The first group requires a laugh track on TV shows. >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu >"And in the death, as the last few corpses lay rotting in the slimy > thoroughfare, the shutters lifted in inches, high on Poacher's Hill..." I want to take this time to say that in general it has been a fair discussion on this newsgroup, with the exception of mIKE, who tends to get everything except the truth... -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN "If you think that we're here for the money, we could live without it. But the world isn't too good here, and it wasn't always like that." Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.