Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!cornell!mailrus!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Next Amiga system Summary: Amiga Architecture Message-ID: <7349@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 28 Sep 88 06:15:54 GMT Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Free Amazon Ice Company Lines: 35 In message <661@wsccs.UUCP>, dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey) says: >fact that Commodore made the Amiga 2000 with an IBM slot as something >that Amiga users did not want. This is clearly incorrect and is not borne up by the sales figures. Think not of the A2000 as an easy way to do PC emulation, but rather as a way to exploit the worlds largest (and cheapest) base of peripherals. Apollo computer also employs this ``trick'' on almost all their current computers. It's pure genius. >I contended that what Amiga owners >really wanted was a more powerful Amiga machine, ie more colors in >normal res-modes and higher resolution with NO INTERLACE. Yes, more colours, (wider dacs) is at the top of my wishlist, and a lot of people seem to agree. We sure have talked about it enough. And, also has been pointed out many times, is that interlace in a required evil to be NTSC compatible. You can get a flicker fixer or wait till the rev of the chips that supports non-interlaced 400 line video. On a very expensive monitor. >Someone >replied with a letter that IBM compatibility is a MUST, citing a >Macintosh magazine as proof. So what is it Amiga owners? Do you want a >more powerful Amiga or IBM compatibility? Moot point. We already have IBM compatibility, so I guess now we go for the more powerful Amiga. -- Ice IS civilization. richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard