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- From: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- Subject: Re: The ESCOM sale of AT
- Sender: news@scala.scala.com (Usenet administrator)
- Message-ID: <1996Apr16.204343.15230@scala.scala.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 20:43:43 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- References: <4kjfi4$jm@nyx10.cs.du.edu> <4ko3ea$e6f@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>
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- Organization: Scala Computer Television, US Research Center
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- In <4ko3ea$e6f@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>, c9608717@alinga.newcastle.edu.au (Pryor J R) writes:
- >Robert Davis (rdavis@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote:
-
- >: The press release says:
- >: "..... products that give home users capabilities such as telephone
- >: reception and dial-up capabilities, facsimile, video games,
- >: pay-per-view options, electronic mail, and access to on-linee
- >: services, including the Internet."
-
- >Yeah but you don't need a PowerPC to do all of that,
-
- Of course you do. If for no other reason than games. The weakest
- post-16-bit game console on the market has CPU power in the A4000
- range, not to mention serious graphics horsepower to help it out. And
- while you're probably going to be happy with a 680x0 performance over
- V34 modems, try a 30mb/s cable-modem pipe for awhile (that's just ONE
- CTV channel, folks). When you're being thrown Web pages that fast, or
- anything else involving compressed graphics, you're going to need the
- hardware to back it up.
-
- Now, when you're the first guy on the block selling this, maybe great
- performance isn't going to be a big deal, since you're the only one in
- the ballgame. But within two years, every PC Clone vendor is likely to
- have something to fit this niche in the computing ecosystem. If
- VIScorp want to have a settop there in 1998, they need PowerPC
- technology work to continue. If they want to exploit the advantage of
- a common SW/HW base for PC and set top, that means Power Amigas in
- 1997.
-
- Dave Haynie | ex-Commodore Engineering | for DiskSalv 3 &
- Sr. Systems Engineer | Hardwired Media Company | "The Deathbed Vigil"
- Scala Inc., US R&D | Ki No Kawa Aikido | info@iam.com
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