Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future)) Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 05:41:12 GMT References: <1991Jun9.005806.18799@news.iastate.edu| <4264.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz| <43@ryptyde.UUCP| <243@touch.touch.com> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 26 In article <243@touch.touch.com> mikeh@touch.touch.com (Mike Haas) writes: >I'm actually a little incredulous that networking wasn't considered more in >the original amiga flavor...it was so far ahead in virtually every other >aspect that industry computing requires. Obviously, as an open system, it >could be added at any time, but in some ways, it would have been much more >important "out-of-the-box" than stereo sound or "genlock-ability" to the >business community. Folks go thru hoops implementing 3rd-party networking >solutions on the PC, but they HAVE TO DO IT! The mac gave it to them >turnkey, with provision to switching to faster medium at the click >of an icon (that's how you re-direct the appletalk protocols from the >ho-hum native localtalk, 230kbps to, for example, ethernet at 10Mbps). >In this respect, they have done a nice job. (too bad the rest of the >OS is so limiting). I remember a rumor a few years back that CBM had bought the mask rights to the 82586 Ethernet chipset. This was before the A2000 came out. If it is true, it is a shame that they didn't design it right onto the motherboard... CBM does own MOS Technologies, which makes its own chips. Maybe CBM was just trying to become a source for the chip... -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************