Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!torrie From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <1991Jun25.064940.3969@neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 25 Jun 91 06:49:40 GMT References: <1991Jun20.075145.22785@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1108.2865c128@vger.nsu.edu> Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA Lines: 35 rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: >What do 3rd party producers make for Mac's??? Whats their bag? They make the usual - accelerator cards, SCSI cards, video cards, network cards. They just have to make them either better than what Apple provides, or make them at a lower price. In terms of SCSI, they're all in the range of 4-5 MB/s, with large on-board caches, controlled by DMA chips from the drive to the board. For video, they're generally accelerated 24-bit cards, or video frame grabbers etc. For network cards, they have 16Mb/s Token Ring, or $199 Ethernet cards etc. However, you shouldn't think that there aren't problems between Apple and its developers when it comes to what Apple sells. Some Mac developers cry foul even if the product is an add-on from Apple{For example, if you're in Europe or the Pacific, you can buy an Apple 21" colour monitor with video card, but you can't buy it here because Radius/RasterOps complained that Apple would have too much of a name advantage. Similarly, Ashton-Tate stopped Apple from buying and distributing the 4th Dimension database, because they complained that it would be unfair to their DBase Mac product [hah, what a joke that was]. Not all developers are like this, though. E-Machines is the biggest seller of 16" colour monitors, which Apple is expected to bring out on their machines in October. However, the president of E-Machines is quoted as saying that "Apple bringing out a product is good for us because it legitimises the market." -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu "And in the death, as the last few corpses lay rotting in the slimy thoroughfare, the shutters lifted in inches, high on Poacher's Hill..."