Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!rutgers!ucla-cs!dorsai.cognet.ucla.edu!dj From: dj@dorsai.cognet.ucla.edu (David J. Wells) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Ideas for New Custom Chips Message-ID: <14146@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 5 Jul 88 18:07:34 GMT References: <3128@polya.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: dj@dorsai.cognet.ucla.edu.UUCP (David J. Wells) Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Lines: 28 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: >> >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. I would exchange fiber optic networking for the Ethernet (optional FO - Enet converter). Also, I would add floating point hardware, hardware FFT, 256M bubble RAM (available 1990 or so), and multi-ported CHIP RAM. As for color, I want 24 bits RGB and 8 bits lookup. Did I forget anything? *grin* Oh yes, speech recognition hardware (neural net chip?) and 3D graphics. I suppose the I could go on... and of course it must be a laptop! dj wells ----- David J Wells w 213/825-6850