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From: dj@dorsai.cognet.ucla.edu (David J. Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ideas for New Custom Chips
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Date: 5 Jul 88 18:07:34 GMT
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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

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