Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!olivea!mintaka!wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu!rjc From: rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <1991Jun15.121453.5511@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 15 Jun 91 12:14:53 GMT References: <1991Jun15.112510.17324@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 50 In article <1991Jun15.112510.17324@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: > I've been saying this for the past year. Before the A3000 came out, >some stupid Amiga developer sent me e-mail to the effect that the A3000 >"has no weaknesses". This was a blatant lie, as it got me thinking that >the A3000 must have improved graphics and color, as the current graphics >and color capabilities (left over from the A1000) are weak in the >extreme. [How can opinion be a "blatant lie"? The A3000 certainly has no-weaknesses for the kinds of stuff I have to do. Every computer can be considered weak in some area. For instance, most computers I know of are weak in built-in virtual-reality.] > Based on my enourmous disappointment with the graphics and color >capabilities of the A3000, I am seriously expecting the 32-bit chipset >to also be extremely disappointing. If that chipset comes out in >summer 1992, more than *SEVEN YEARS* would have passed between the >introduction of the original chipset and the introduction of the first >chipset with actual improvements. For this much of a time lag to be >justified, the 32-bit chipset will have to be extremely powerful indeed. >Given what Commodore has done in the past, I am very justified in my >doubts that it will be. Why does it have to be justified? For instance, CD-I and the 68040 were/are both late. The hubble was late. Products miss deadlines mainly because of problems, not because they are adding some super-duper features. I don't expect Comodore to ever release a 32-bit chipset. I expect them to work on DIG. I'd rather have add-in boards that are constantly evolving rather than rely on one companies product. A 32-bit chipset wouldn't work on the A500 which is Commodore's bread and butter of the Amiga line. > Amiga -- Yesterday's technology, forever. Actually Marc, you're remark is rather jerkish. C= engineers have worked hard on producing 2.0 and the A3000 and you still act as if they have done nothing. MB, yesterday's threads, reiterated forever. -- / INET:rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu * // The opinions expressed here do not \ | INET:r_cromwe@upr2.clu.net | \X/ in any way reflect the views of my self.| \ UUCP:uunet!tnc!m0023 * /