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From: jimm@mitsumi.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wishlist for A3000
Message-ID: <876@mitsumi.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Nov-87 15:46:54 EST
Article-I.D.: mitsumi.876
Posted: Sun Nov  8 15:46:54 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Nov-87 02:47:42 EST
References: <74@mithras> <33314@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: jimm@mitsumi.UUCP (James Mackraz)
Organization: Mitsumi Technology Inc
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Keywords: Commodore A3000 Do it RIGHT!

In article <33314@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
)[Apologies in advance if anyone is offended by this posting.]
)
)In article <74@mithras> sims@stsci.EDU (Jim Sims) writes:
)# This is not a lame, but an honest attempt to try to steer Commodore in the
)# direction that Amiga owners want to go.
)# So, my list looks like this:
)# [ ... items ... ]
)    No problem
)# [ ... items ... ]
)    Got this one covered.
)# [ ... items ... ]
)    Check.

)You know where I'm leading don't you? You guessed it, we're talking 
)workstation here, how about a Sun 3/60?
):-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) 
)Note I work for Sun so I am biased. 
)--Chuck McManis
)These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.

Ah, Chuck, but he said AMIGA 3000.  So it went without saying that
he also wants lots of standard equipment which can be assumed by all
software written for the machine.

-Standard color, at least a *majority* of color systems.
-full-logic blitter in every single box
-dma stereo audio, with RCA jacks
-beam-syned coprocessor
-upwards compatible with mass-distributed inexpensive machine to
 insure lots of low-cost sotware, especially games (FirePower
 in particular?)
-slots (is a Sun 3/60 the little one with <2 slots?)
-relatively cheap peripherals

All in good fun, Chuck.  But it leads to an observation that
might provoke thought: I don't think the of the (current) Amiga as a
workstation, but it's increasingly more like a workstation than a
workstation will *ever* be like an Amiga.  (Which is, I suspect, why
we have you around, guy.)

I'd say the key point is the fifth item listed above.  Why I want an
Amiga workstation: good machine for writing A500 software.  Then
again, a Sun works pretty well for this, as I recall.

	jimm

-- 
	Jim Mackraz
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