Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 18:05:02 GMT References: <1991Jun20.075145.22785@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 45 storch@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Matthew Storch) writes: [much good stuff deleted] >The engineers at CBM probably thought of this at some point (am I right, >Dave?) but for whatever reason CBM just doen't seem to want to improve >the basic graphics hardware. Instead they have wasted engineering effort >on kluges like the (also infinitely delayed) A2024 "Hedly HiRes" monitor, >and the A2091. There is nothing wrong with the 2091, but there was almost >no reason for Commodore to waste precious engineering effort on it; by the >time it came out, third party manufacturers had comparable boards. Why >waste time designing something GVP, etc. already had? Note that I fully >support the original 2090; it came out with the 2000 and there was no >alternative at the time. As for the 2024 I think that it's RIDICULOUS >to invest in a proprietary display with no future like the 2024, in light >of the excellent and reasonably priced range of COLOR multisync monitors >available. (Ridiculous from both the users' and CBM's standpoints.) Commodore built a 2091 for numerious reasons...One is pride, how would Commodore look if they shipped a GVP controller in an A2500? Would you have scorned them if they were still shipping the 2500 with an 2090???? Another reason was cost. The chips they have to buy from Western Digital probably cost alot less if you buy them in large lots. And if you look at the A2091 to the 2090, you can see it has a part count thats hundreds less than the 2090. Plus creating their own system, will kinda wake up the misguided that made non-RDB units that argued that Commodore doesn't make one... How does this sound...Commodore should be bold, and add on-board SCSI to all Amigas built after January 1992. Across the line, except the A500C until they can afford to add it to a $500 machine. Then alot of places that sell Mac only SCSI drives would jump on the bandwagon of selling external SCSI's for Amigas as well... They could call them the A500PS, A2000S, and the A2500S. It would encourage A500PS owners to get Hard Drives, especially if it only costs $400 for 100 megs...instead of $1000 for 100 megs that it currently costs with external controllers...Raise the price of the computers $50 if thats what it takes..People looking at A500P's wouldn't mind paying $50 extra if they know its saving them $400 in the future... -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) If Americans only cared about their Government as much as their SPORTS!!