Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unisoft!hoptoad!xanth!kent
From: kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ideas for New Custom Chips
Summary: While we're overcompensating ... ;-)
Keywords: Forgot one! Fish & Chips.
Message-ID: <5694@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 88 19:54:03 GMT
References: <3128@polya.Stanford.EDU> <1566@eneevax.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
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Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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In article <1566@eneevax.UUCP> smaug@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Kurt J. Lidl) writes:
>In article <3128@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
>:In order for the Amiga to compete in the current marketplace, the
>:machine should have at *least* the following features:
>:
>:	* 4096 color registers, 16 million colors
>:	* 2048x2048 resolution, non-interlaced, on a standard TV
>:	* 12 blitters, one for each of 12 planes
>:	* 88000 CPU, w/ 68020 emulation as fast as the 68020
>:	* Matrix and clipping hardware built in
>:	* 44Khz sampling rate, 16-bit DAC's on four channels
>:	* Each channel with AM, FM synthesis and enveloping
>:	* 16M memory standard, expandable to 4G
>:	* Built-in ST506, SCSI, EDSI, fast HPIB interfaces
>:	* At least four serial ports, capable of 2Mbaud
>:	* Built-in Ethernet port
>:	* A price under $1000
>
>Gasp!  You forgot the MOST IMPORTANT one!  A machine just CANNOT
>be taken seriously without a 4 (or more) button mouse.  Just
>what kind of cruel hoax were you pulling anyhow?
>
>:Without these features, the machine simply cannot be taken
>:seriously as a home computer; they are absolutely essential to
>:emulate a vt100 properly, let alone run video games.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ if that's not a smiley face (as I sit here using
                           vt100 release 2.4 in perfect happiness at being 4
                           or 5 releases behind; this one has never shown
                           _me_ any bugs or missing features) then I don't
                           know what one is.
>:-- 
>:    /-- Tomas Rokicki         ///  Box 2081  Stanford, CA  94309
>
>-- 
>==================================================================
>==  Kurt J. Lidl  (smaug@eneevax.umd.edu)	(301)454-6849	==
>==  UUCP: [seismo,allegra]!umcp-cs!eneevax!smaug		==
>========"It's after 3am, no point in going to sleep now..."=======


For just a couple of extra wires, surely not more than 5 cents each in
the retail price, you could just as well go right to the hex keypad
built into the mouse, and really meet the crucial needs of the home user.

Hmmm.  While I'm on the subject, it's really inconvenient having to
unplug the mouse all the time to put in that second joystick.  How
about five mouseports, so my friends can play M.U.L.E. in one window
while I mouse around editing the Great American Slug Cookbook in
another; a real showcase for multitasking; should sell millions more
Amigas that way!  What do you say, Commodore Marketing?  I'll even put
a plug for the Amiga 6666 in my book, if you just give me a way to get
these twits occupied so they don't bother me while I'm creating
recipes.

Kent, the man from xanth.
(Above article may be liberally sprinkled with industrial strength
smileys as appropriate.)