From: danaf@bray1b.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Subject: Re: Emplant - Why it is not feasible as a workstation
Reply-To: danaf@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 05:02:15 GMT

In article <83769@ut-emx.uucp>, ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) writes:
|> 
|> First and foremost, let me apologize for the rabidness of the previous
|> posts about the Emplant.

That's OK... at least you didn't say "crap"!   }8)

|> The Emplant is a great idea - if you are running a video lab and
|> need the Video Toaster and advanced video and sound.

???????? You don't seem to have the slightest idea what you're talking about
here. Either that, or I'm not understanding any of your message....

|> Amiga's sw base is too small to find the items you need to
|> care and feed a workstation.  The NeXT can use all unix
|> stuff.  The Mac and PC have excellent sw bases.  (I am
|> not knocking the NeXT's sw base either, 600 MB freebies
|> are not bad with a system release :-).

Uhm... 'scuse me... the Emplant has all of the MAC's software base at its 
chubby little fingertips... so if that base is so "good", what's the problem?

|> IMHO, I just do not see C= making a dent in the places
|> where a workstation is needed.  If I do, I will be
|> surprised.
|> 
|> PS:  When you post, make sense and do not talk gibberish.  This
|>      goes to the Amiga sysop who was flopping out about the
|>      Emplant.
|> 

I think someone had better explain the Emplant to you. As per your PS, maybe
you should find out about the things you're trashing before you hit "F"...

The Emplant is not some sort of wonderful new Amiga workstation, built by
Commodore to kill SUN and NeXTcorp, as you seem to be implying that you think.

(This is the same sort of friggin' confusion that always results with the Video
Toaster... "oh, yeah, it's that big $4500 video workstation in the funny-looking
computer case, righ???"   SIGH. I hate NewTek...)
 
The Emplant is, like the Toaster, not a computer but a peripheral board. The
Emplant is a card for the Amiga 2000 and greater line of computers. It will
allow the Amiga community access to cheap colour MAC emulation right out of 
the package, and the company that produces it has hinted that other forms of
emulation (PC, Quadra, etc...) may follow. This is because the Emplant is not
a dedicated MAC emulator, as A-MAX is, but rather a multiplatform emulation
system controlled by a set of (easily?) replaced custom chips. Emplant will
most likely run well over 90% of all MAC software, since it has access to the
same processor as a "real" MAC. On applications software, most likely what Amiga
users will want it for, that ratio could hit (pure guess...) 97- or 98%!!!

|> -- 
|> ********** ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) **********
|> Windows NT:                  * Disclaimer:  I speak for myself *
|>                              ***********************************
|> You WANT your hard drive trashed now.

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