Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!ns-mx!scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu!bheil From: bheil@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <6526@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Date: 17 Jun 91 15:31:01 GMT References: <1991Jun15.112510.17324@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@ns-mx.uiowa.edu Distribution: usa Organization: College of Business, University of Iowa Lines: 33 In article <1991Jun15.112510.17324@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: > 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. Hmmm. The Mac IIci that I'm using here doesn't have Disk DMA. When I need something off a floppy or my hard drive everything else I'm doing stops. The builtin 256 color graphics slow to a crawl and my network access stops completely. If apple doesn't stop using polled I/O in Macs they will die by next week. SEVEN YEARS have passed since the original Mac 128k appeared and Apple still doesn't have a DMA system or real multi-tasking (the IIfx HAS DMA and the MacOS doesn't even use it!) If the MacOS starts using DMA in 2001, it will be SEVENTEEN YEARS since the introduction of the original MAC!!!! Based on nothing at all I can say these things!! (except for the fact that most of it is true). > ------------------------------------------------------------- > / Marc Barrett -MB- | BITNET: XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET / >/ ISU COM S Student | Internet: XGR39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU / >------------------------------------------------------------ >\ The great thing about standards is that / > \ there are so many of them to choose from. / > ------------------------------------------------------- >