Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!olivea!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <22228@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 23:13:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.22228
References: <5068@orbit.cts.com> <16647@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Lines: 34

In article <16647@darkstar.ucsc.edu> galpin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Dan Galpin (Amiga-quester)) writes:

>[*** WARNING. TANGENT APPROACHING! ***]
>(*** BY the way.. have you checked MacGeek (The Macintosh Weekly Magazine) :-)
>lately.. People sell 50Mhz MacIIFX repackages with 128MBytes of RAM (using
>16 MB simms.) Show me an Amiga that can currently be expanded to 128Megs of RAM.
>Radius has a 68040 accelerator for the Macs with 24-bit color built into the
>board. Don't even THINK of comparing Amiga accelerator peripherals with those
>available to Mac users. ***)
>[*** Tangent gone ***]

Well, I had 144MB in my A3000 once.  Having no use for it, I gave the RAM back.
Sure, that's with memory boards that aren't on the market.  Though anyone could
make them, the design is published in the Atlanta DevCon notes (from last year).
I'm expecting a commercial board to surface Real Soon Now, though not from C=.

>Currently the Amiga 500 with an A1024 is running at a similar price to a
>16Mhz 386SX with VGA monitor. The CLONE has far more raw processor power. 

A bit more than twice the processing power, if you're not doing graphics.

>I would like to see all publishing packages support a FPU, along with other 
>applications designed for the home user. 

The FPU is only useful if you're doing floating point in the first place.
A good number of applications don't use floating point.  Many of those that
do use the IEEE math libraries, which means they support FPUs.  In fact, if
you're talking about supporting FPUs on 68000s, that's the only practical
way to do it, via the IEEE libs.

-- 
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
	"This is my mistake.  Let me make it good." -R.E.M.