Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: A new Amiga needed...and soon! Message-ID: Date: 30 Jun 91 08:55:19 GMT References: <1991Jun27.025556.6986@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 47 arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes: > > >Mabye thats the answer. Let Commodore jump its price up to where "the big >boys" are pushing it.. Heard somewhere that the Mac IIfx costs a little more >than $950 to make, just a rumor.. Probably not true. The 68030 they use must cost $300++ at least. 4 megs of ram is probably around $200(at the prive they pay, bulk). The Quantum hard drive probably costs around $300 to $400...I allready hit $900 without the FPU and R&D.. >On another note: > >I say, can you dig what Saturn is doing. Revamping the whole idea of how to >produce a car. Has anyone thought of doing this with operating systems? >Someones got to make some kind of architecture to bridge between Unix, MSDOS, >Mac, Amiga, and perhaps even NeXT. Computers need to be standardized. We cant >rely off BridgeBoard, Medusa's, and A-Max all our lives, yah know.. Saturn isn't all THAT different. Why does it look like every other GM car? It doesn't have air bags, etc..Ah, if anyone revamped how to build a car its Chrysler and the reorganization of their development activities. Ah, they now have four "platform" teams(small car, large car, truck/jeep, and minivan) which include people from marketing, product planning, design, vehicle engineering, manufacturing engineering, procurement and supply, and finance. This new "team" effort will allow them to crank a newly designed car from concept approval to production in just over 3 years(The LH is comming in 1992 from this program and the PL in 1993)...This is not the place for this type of discussion tho...and I don't get rec.autos here :-( I asked for it L-O-N-G ago... I do believe some effort to standardize computers will happen, but you might not see it in the next 10 years. As far as Commodore, Atari, Compaq are concerned, they all run on electricity and thats standard enough. If anything standard is going to come out, it will be from Japan, where companys can work together without anti-trust. Remember MSX? It failed, but will the next MSX? I believe IBM had a vision of this with OS/2 didn't they? Wasn't there supposed to be a Mac version of OS/2? is this all in the dumper now? Look for "pink" talk also... -- C-UseNet V0.42f 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!) Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.