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- From: porter_woodward@internet.kronos.com (Porter Woodward)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 12:07:42 GMT
- Organization: Software Quality Assurance
- Message-ID: <4irgqe$l01@beavis.kronos.com>
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- In article <wfblanDoKopL.9yt@netcom.com>, wfblan@netcom.com says...
- >
- >Jason Compton (jcompton@flood.xnet.com) wrote:
- >: Bj÷rn Hagstr÷m (orgin@medio.mh.se) wrote:
- >: : Jason Compton - Master of pessimism ...
- >
- >: I know it shouldn't, but that just pisses me off.
- >
- >: I put an awful lot of hard work into the continuation of the Amiga. What
- >: you mistake for pessimism is outrage and disappointment in what I see as
- >: a failure to act properly to re-establish the Amiga as a serious computer.
- >
- >: If I was ready to write off the Amiga's chances to be something greater
- >: than it is today, I wouldn't be here taking this sort of verbal abuse.
- >: I'd be living the good life, not losing my hair trying very hard to
- >: preserve an active Amiga community.
- >
- >: So don't give me this pessimism bullshit.
- >
- >: --
- >: Jason Compton jcompton@xnet.com
- >: Editor-in-Chief, Amiga Report Magazine (708) 741-0689 FAX
- >: You know you're on the way out... it's just a matter of time.
- >: Maybe some escape? No! Not even one!
- >: AR on Aminet - docs/mags/ar???.lha AR Mailing list - Mail me
- >: WWW - http://www.omnipresence.com/Amiga/News/AR, www.cucug.org/ar/ar.html
- >
- >
- >I am behind you Jason. I agree that the new "Walker" should come with NO
- >less than a 68040. With it, we could have good speed Mac emulation with
- >ShapeShifter. Texture Mapped games could play in full speed. With the
- >040 and 060 code being so similar, things will be optimized for them
- >instead of for the 030 which many times leaves the faster CPUs running
- >the same speed or slower than the 030. An 040/060 CICS remnant machine
- >is the only logical thing. While I am attempting to be happy with
- >whatever AT chooses to do, I must admit I am disappointed as well.
- >Maybe Dave Haynie will try to get it through to them that a FULL 68040
- >is what should be in the new "Walker". Fingers crossed.
- >
- > Rob Bamford
- > (wfblan@netcom.com)
-
- Well - although I would also like to see them offer an o40 system - I also see why they
- might not be. If the rumors are true, and the CPU is a plcc directly on the board, not socketed -
- then this will really suck.
-
- If however, this is because it is merely a prototype and they intend to offer a machine
- with the CPU on a simple daughter board... Then it would be cool. This would mean that a single
- housing (the case) and some standard options (HD and CD) would be present on Amiga's with a
- variety of CPUs. Let me put this out for general consumption; Lets hope they offer a range of
- processor options from 68ec030 to 68060s. With upgrades available from AT in the form of a
- simple daughter board (I'm not talking about the one in the A4000 with Warp-engines and
- Cyberstorm accelerators - just a simple multipurpose CPU board) it could form the base of a pretty
- cool, and expandable architecture.
-
- Possible price list:
- CPU Module Price:
- 68ec030 $850
- 68rc030 $950
- 68lc040 $1050
- 68rc040 $1150
- 68060 $1300
-
- If possible, as one went up the ladder so to speak, the HD would get a little bigger, say
- starting at 260MB and going up 50-100MB each step. Also, slightly more RAM with each step -
- starting at 4MB Fast and jumping up to 8 for the o40s, and maybe 12 for the o60...
-
- That way, they'd be offering something in everybodies price range. And, you could
- upgrade w/o having to scrap the whole thing.
-
- You'll note that there is no PPC listed here. I am talking a very simple CPU daughter
- board. Attempting to engineer a slot that could fully utilize a range of processors from the o30 to a
- PPC would violate the "simple" principle. However, as I am viewing this machine as the base brain
- of an extensible system - and the central multi-purpose bus expansion slot as a spine - I envision that
- a CPU board with PCI slots and a PPC processor could be mounted on it - superceding the base
- brain where necessary.
-
- But, hey - that's just my thinking.
-
- Let's get some dialog going - let AT know how we feel. Yeah - we like progress, but
- we have some reservations about just where we are going!
-
- - Porter
-
-