Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!plx!dlb!dana!rap
From: rap@dana.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga futures
Message-ID: <273@dana.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 17:15:33 GMT
References: <4342@ecsvax.UUCP>
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Lines: 25
Keywords: 68020, C3000, mixed cpu/system machines
Summary: one more orphan

In article <4342@ecsvax.UUCP>, urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
> 
> (references to many mixed cpu systems... deleted)
>   
... then too there was the Dimension 68000 that was to be a
    you choose the CPU, you choose the OS, all things to all
    people system (I believe with Z80, 6502, 68000, ...more
    'available' RSN)

    Guess I was lucky I couldn't afford one at the time.

I persist in believing that CBM can make a go of a mixed CPU, though.
As currently implemented, it can give software compatibility in a
multi-tasking environment and get a foot in the door for CBM.  Who
knows, maybe once people are exposed to the Amiga end of things,
they might end up using the PC-part of the machine a little less
often, or perhaps asking "why can't my PC do what this thing can
do?"

Saw a review of some ethernet package for OS/2 in Info World yesterday that
mentioned that the software needed at least 2MB of RAM just to run it.
Seems that Ameristar must have done their ethernet stuff in
a little less space for Amy, eh?

Rob Peck			...ihnp4!hplabs!dana!rap