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From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga on a mac ii budget- the sequel
Message-ID: <355@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 88 17:07:55 GMT
References: <575@super.ORG> <3075@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <4793@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts)
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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In article <4793@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Herbert West) writes:
>>Entire stuff deleted, complaining about the AMIGA
>
>
>I'm getting sick of people bad-mouthing the AMIGA. Like saying the A1000
>is getting pretty wimpy.
>
> [Some comments about the Amiga being the best machine, and not wimpy]
>
>Give us honest AMIGA-loving owners a break and send your whining to
>/dev/null.

     I would like to add another observation.  After reading this news
group for almost two years, it seems there have been a lot of people
telling Commodore what the Amiga *should* be: their dream machine.
Come on!  Everyone of us has a different "perfect computer," and
expecting Commodore to come up with a machine that meets most of
everyone's specifications is ridiculous.  Sure, there are certainly
deviances in Commodore's machines from my
all-time-super-whammy-computer, but I do not expect them to change it.
I think they have done a great job already.

#define SARCASM_MODE_ON

     In my opinion, I think that Commodore's next computer should be
based on a hypercube architecture; have the speed of a Cray (yet it
shouldn't require plasma for coolant); have 23 gigabytes of available
ram (that can be expanded to 256 terabytes); have removable-media
drives with 1 million terabytes of read/write storage; have a
multi-tasking OS with all of the power of UNIX, VMS, OS/[360,2],
MULTICS, [and any other obscure OS you can think of], and with
embedded "AI techniques" to do processing on the command-line and
figure out what you *really* wanted to type as well as have a complete
expert system in it to diagnose problems that you make; have sound
chips that surpass current high-end Kurzweils and FairLights as well
as speech recognition, all in octaphonic sound; and have graphics with
better pixel resolution than 70mm motion-picture film using 32
bit-planes (4294967295 colors) out of a palette of 1 google possible
colors, all being displayed on a 1-meter diagonal, 32768 x 32768 pixel
color monitor.  Oh yeah, and the basic system should be all of the
above (with only one drive, to cut down costs) and be available for
under $200.  I sincerely think that if CBM can get this out in under a
year, that you will probably blow the Macintosh and IBM markets to
kingdom come!  (And for anyone who has not yet figured out that this
paragraph is a big joke, ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

#undefine SARCASM_MODE_ON

     Keep up the good work Commodore.  I have yet to find a better
machine for my purposes...and that will be hard, because my a1000 fits
most of my needs already.

					-Chris
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Christopher Lishka                 ...!{rutgers|ucbvax|...}!uwvax!uwslh!lishka
Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene                   lishka%uwslh.uucp@cs.wisc.edu
Immunology Section  (608)262-1617                            lishka@uwslh.uucp
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