Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!cs.umu.se!dvljhg From: dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Summary: Maybe in a couple of years? Message-ID: <1991May13.013928.11015@cs.umu.se> Date: 13 May 91 01:39:28 GMT References: <1991May8.013806.14640@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991May12.190706.28411@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: news@cs.umu.se (News Administrator) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.next Organization: Dep. of Info.Proc, Umea Univ., Sweden Lines: 62 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <1991May12.190706.28411@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes: > > 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... > >Let's see how well Apple, Atari, and Commodore make the transition to >the 88K, or any other chip. It will be very interesting to see what will happen when they do. There is just one trouble with this argument at the moment, now is a long way away. A change to the 88k family won't happen until the difference in speed is rather hopeless. In two or three years serious development of 88k machines may begin at one or more of the larger vendors. A small platform like the NeXT may benefit from doing that now but I don't see it happening on a larger platform. The potential threat of no working software will make the others think twice. How about discussing this again in a years time when there might be a chance of making reasonable guesses? > > And that is only if the computers have expansion slots. > >You aren't going to be able to just drop an 88K in a computer. You >will need a redesigned CPU board. An expandable NeXT costs $2000 more Could you design a co-processor board for the amiga to use the strong features of, for example, an 88k or some other RISC chip? ( Dave Haynie alert! ) >than the NeXTstation. If you don't need the expansion, it's >better(IMHO) to buy the NeXTstation and sell it when you want a bigger >and better machine. For college students, the extra price to get the >Cube is almost another NeXTstation minus the monitor. > You have brought this up a number of times now. The problem is that the people reading this group tends to be computer literate and know that there are similar deals for the other platforms. Being computer literate they know that an expandable machine is a lot less prone to be out of date within a month or two. People in general also recognize that computers go down in price very fast. Decent resale value is more or less unheard of :-( > 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... > >Yeah, the guy who likes the NeXT was wrong. > >-Mike Actually, most of your posting aren't too bad. The fact that you repeat yourself as often as you do makes most of us reading this suspect that we are talking to an Eliza simulation reacting on keywords, throwing in the odd insult now and then to make things interesting. If someone could supply you with a decent database of facts having you around wouldn't be too bad :-). /Jorgen -- email dvljhg@cs.umu.se | DUMII: Sentinel of the scales Everything I say is always true, just apply it to the right reality. "Credo, quia absurdum est." Credo (dei) in absurdum est?