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From: tim@amdcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Next Amiga
Message-ID: <15999@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 10:43:51 EST
Article-I.D.: amdcad.15999
Posted: Tue Apr  7 10:43:51 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Apr-87 03:44:19 EST
References: <3367@udenva.UUCP> <6248@ukmj.ukma.ms.uky.csnet>
Reply-To: tim@amdcad.UUCP (Tim Olson)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, Ca.
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In article <6248@ukmj.ukma.ms.uky.csnet> sean@ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) writes:
>If Commodore really wants to STICK IT to Apple and IBM, they should develop a
>68030 machine, not 68020.  Put a 64K cache on it and let it scream.  I don't
>care if the graphics are better.  Unix at 6-8 MIPS would sell a lot of Amigas.

Better yet, leap-frog *everyone* and put in an Am29000.  While all of
the others are getting their 20% performance advantage over the 68020 by
redesigning with the '030, we could be running our ray-tracers at 15 X
VAX 11-780 speed ;-)

	Tim (just dreamin' out loud) Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(ihnp4!amdcad!tim)