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From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win NT (was: 4 Colour Interfaces : -( )
Date: 11 Dec 1992 17:57:08 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

In article <1992Dec11.171917.28975@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>One little, two little, three little endians, 
>Four little, five little, six little endians,
>Seven little, eight little, nine little endians,
>Ten little Endian boys!
>;)
>
>And there is, for those of us who haven't a clue as to what an 'endian' is:

It refers to computer architecture, and the location of the high and
low bits.  Big-endian means that the high byte is on the right side,
and little-endian means that the high-byte is on the low-side.  So,
for instance, when you see:

	0010

In big-endian, that's 4.  In little endian, that's 2.  Make sense?
because: 

	0010				0010

	1248				8421
     (BIG-endian)		   (little-endian)

That's why the MIPS architecture, when in little-endian mode, is
reffered to as spim.  :)

Greg

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipsets
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 13 Dec 92 22:56:57 PST
Organization: TAP

Quoted from <ByuyJ7.G5H@news.iastate.edu> by barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett):

> more quickly than when funding for R&D at Commodore was far higher.  Again,
> what has changed all of a sudden that this is possible?

    Maybe CBM used to employ a fool like you, who has since been
    replaced with this Lewis chap.

> | Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
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From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Bill "I Scream for Ice Cream" Gates
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:49:06 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.194937.5932@microsoft.com>iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy) writes:

>Once upon a time the world's wealthiest bachelor wanted some ice cream.
>So he hopped in his zippy car of choice and zipped over to
>(insert store here). Upon ariving at the ice cream section he selected
>the flavor he wanted and proceded to pay for the ice cream. But here's
>the hang up : he had a coupon!...

Boy, I bet these stories get embellished every time they go around the
office :). For anyone who's interested, Robert X. Cringely has an interesting
account of the industry in "Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon
Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, And Still Can't
Get a Date." Hygiene and sexual exploits seem to be a recurring motif.

[I see an opportunity for a post Dan...]

BTW, did Bill ever get his Porsche back together?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod)
Subject: Re: CBM advertising. Was Re: Anybody there? Obviously not!
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:10:14 GMT

>I was on reading news just a couple of days ago and one of my friends
>TALKed to me (he has a clone), at the time I was waiting for my HD to
>format (AGAIN, I'm beginning to hate Seagate) and I told him that I
>coldn't talk long because I was formating and had to start installing
>software (AGAIN).  He asked me if I had two computers.
>
>I was more than a little irked.

Instead of getting mad why didn't you look at it from his point of
view.  99% of the population has only one hard drive.  Reformatting
your hard drive and using your computer are generally mutually
exclusive, no matter HOW good your multitasker.  Unless, of course you
have two hard drives, or don't need to use the hard drive at ALL to
telecommuniate, or are running from floppy.

 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: Dan flipped through an AmigaWorld, and:
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:46:27 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.184333.313@ugle.unit.no> eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.165706.145@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>, tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
> > In article <1992Dec13.061400.28016@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu
> > (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>
[The WB2.0 looks awful, or at least the multitudes of application-specific
4-color inferfaaces. :-)  ]

> > You've touch on the most important element: commonality. It isn't the
> > underlying GUI that's the problem, but it's use. We have this debate amongst
> > ourselves all the time. Thankfully, with RTG and layout sensitivity,
> > standardization is inevitable.
>
>Of course, customization is good too...  I mean, who wants to look at the SAME
>BORING windows, day out & day in...  I'm bored with windows, and I only ever play
>that really cool minefield game (and that in the shop...)
>
> > >And the Workbench is suppose to be SO SOO GREAT!?  Ha!
> > 
> > Functionality wise, I'd say yes. Aesthetically, we're still at the infantile
> > stage. Don't forget, when 2.0 was released, it predated Windows. Since then,
> > user perceptions have changed dramatically. I personally find the Mac GUI
> > ugly as well, but find NeXTStep to be ideal with a limited palette.
>
>MAC?  Eeeeeuurgh!  It's EXACTLY like the ST desktop...  (Which is, of course, why
>DRI were sued by Apple for GEM...)  As for NeXT...  I've seen ONE.  ONCE.  So I'm
>not going to say anything about it.  (How many times had ya seen the Workbench,
>Dan?  Aaaaah...)

Come now, the Mac looks MUCH better than what I have seen of GEM.  The Mac is
clearly matured, but it is obvious how OLD it is!  Look at Windows.  It has taken
off.  I definitely do not think a significant number of Windows users are 
'lost Mac users'.  No way.  They saw how SEXY (d'ya hear that Paula? SEXY)
Windows looked at leaped at it.  If Windows 3.0 had been arounf when 286s
were around I don't think the Mac would be here today.

>Anyway, Dan, thank you for this extremely enlightening and interesting thread...
>That's the spirit of advocacy! ;)

I'm always happy to oblige.  
:-)

>-Eyvind
> \X/   |         eyvind@lise.unit.no | Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!  Ackpth!
-- 
Dan Stephenson                                                das9674@usl.edu  
"There once was a Lady from Hyde/who ate some bad apples and died/but while
we lamented/the apples fermented/making cider inside her inside!" 
                        -Member of the Court, Texas Renaissance Festival  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipset
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:43:59 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.200017.634@ludd.luth.se> pjotr@ludd.luth.se (Peter Sj|str|m) writes:
>In <Bz9Bno.GsH@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>
>>   Commodore has never proven to me, to my satisfaction, that the CDTV is
>>still alive.
>
>	Can't you ever stop??? What do you want CBM to tell *you*? CBM still
>sells CDTV machines, they announced that there will be an AGA CDTV, they
>announced that the Amiga line will get CDTV integrated into it. What *do*
>you really want them to prove? What is 'satisfaction' to you?

   Fewer "announcements" and more results.  Atari has proven over and over and
over again that anyone can make announcements.  

---
| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
--------------------------------------------------
From: matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Dan flipped through an AmigaWorld, and:
Date: 15 Dec 92 13:27:07 GMT
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Stephenson Daniel A (das9674@usl.edu) wrote:

: *I* said that it was good to be so fast, as to launch apps quick to
: get rid of it to look at.

Ah, stop it.

My WB is actually very nice. In the background you can enjoy a very
nice ray traced picture (Real3D, heard of that?), and the resolution
is around 700x650. The digitized icons in 16-color gray scale also
look good.

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From: Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipsets
Distribution: world
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:45:25 EDT
Organization: Amiga Colony BBS

re article by Martin Black, mentioning Amiga bus being faster than most
other personal computer buses, and "-I haven't looked at workstation buses"
 -- FutureBus+ ia 64 bits wide, and a couple companies have it available. 
However, it's not clear that it's really going much of any where.  MultiBus
II seems to be dying off and set adrift by Intel.  VME, initiated long ago
by Motorola, continues to survive [though I've SEEN VME buses that used
80386es running MS-DOS applications as engines!  I was to put it mildly
taken aback at that!].  S-Bus has some adherents, though people complain
the form factor is too small.  Eurocard is still out there.......


-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc,rec.games.chess
From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
Subject: Re: UChess101.lha
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:10:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.112127.2026@crash> uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
>Please make sure, if you get UChess from ftp, that you get
>the UChess101.lha archive, not Uchess.lha, the UChess101.lha
>has much nicer 16 color graphics than the older one,
>other than that they are identical.
>

Why there is no 68000 version? I've AdSpeed in my A500. When I play the
golf game LINKS, it is just a little slower than A3000. So, I think you
should write a 68000 version also.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
Subject: Re: Dan flipped through an AmigaWorld, and:
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:40:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.063021.28547@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>Wow, this sort of comment REALLY points out some Amiga inadequecies:

>1) Apps have private screens.  This shoots to hell an enforcement of
>commonality between apps.  What a wild blend of software that designs its
>own interface.  Woo woo.

We have a "User Interface Style Guide" if the programmers don't use it,
it's their own fault.  Not the OS.

>2) It seems beyond me that Amigaworld, *AMIGA*World, wouldn't have shots of the
>Workbench.  Think about it.  What a farce that the Amiga GUI is so irrelevant,
>being some kind of program loader, that it isn't touted.  Sheesh.  You can't
>do that with Windows or OS/2.  The basic structure of windows are all the same.
>You can't help but see the basic of Windows/OS/2 by looking at screen shots of
>Windows or OS/2 screen shots.

I can just see "Windows World":  OOOH, look, this app puts it's icon
on the left, and..., this one... on the RIGHT!  Ya know, magazines
review applications, they don't go on and on about the OS EVERY ISSUE.
But I guess CLONE users have to prove that their particular OS is the
best too, eh?  OS/2 no Windows no OS/2 no Windows . . .

>Hopefully, HOPEFULLY, hires and HI color workbenchs are worth using.  And some
>Amigans tout the BLAZING SPEED of the WB?!  Good grief! I sure would hope so,
>to lauch a program to be able to stop looking at it.

You didn't even SEE the WB.  Quit blasting it.  Gawd, one magazine and he
thinks he's an expert.

>-- 
>Dan Stephenson                                                das9674@usl.edu  
>"There once was a Lady from Hyde/who ate some bad apples and died/but while
>we lamented/the apples fermented/making cider inside her inside!" 
>                        -Member of the Court, Texas Renaissance Festival  

Thanks, that's much better.

And one more thing:  if I see that stupid "(ya know, the ones that the
Amiga can't run)" I'm going to kick you in the teeth till your toes
bleed!  (Non-literaly :)

--Jason Balicki
kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
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From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
Date: 13 Dec 1992 16:25:07 GMT
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
NNTP-Posting-Host: kepler.unh.edu

Regarding PC Native Sound
'>Yea, like the Apple II speaker wasn't meant for games.  It's what comes w/ the
'>computer, so it's the units "Native Sound".  I have heard some nice stuff from
'>that PC speaker, but Wolfenstien taint one of them.

	Anyone who plays games on a PC without a sound card is lost.  Castle
   Wolfenstein 3d sounds pretty damn good on my SBPro.

							Greg Greene
                                                        ggg@kepler.unh.edu

'>Jim
'>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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'>          Jim Martin   MATRIX -- If it's made, we sell it. Almost.
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'>      We're almost done with the Cray module for the EmPlanT.  :) heh
'>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black)
Subject: Re: Power-up for AGA Machines! rumour.
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:49:08 GMT

tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:

>In article <Bz9FGq.MrI@fiu.edu> freire2a@serss0 (Angel Freire) writes:

>>...little later in the year, AND he positively told me that there were 
>>amigas in the research labs with DEC ALPHAS running AmigaDos. i was 
>>quite surprised. im no hardware guy, but wouldn't the OS have to be 
>>recompiled to run on the Alpha? isn't it an either or kind of thing? 
>>you know: AmigaDos compiled for 68k or AmigaDos for Alpha? well, he made
>>it seem that it would run on both with no modifications. regardless, I
>>had a C= rep tell me that thre would be Alpha powered amigas...

>Porting AmigaDOS to for use on a RISC processor would be a monumental
>task in some respects, although a significant amount of the old BCPL
>and assembly code has been converted to C. Interesting speculation anyway.

>>one other note. i asked him about the rumors of an ec030, 030,
>>and 040 Tower version of the 4000 and he told me those reports were wrong.

>Well, the rumours came from Lew Eggebrecht himself, so it sounds like
>the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. Given the release
>date of the tower version and the fact that there are apparently 5 in
>West Chester right now, it would seem quite likely. Was this guy an
>engineer or a suit?

the guy that wrote the article said that it was that there won't be those
exact model numbers.  So probably that means that there won't be an ec030.
considering the price diff between the two are negligable.  Or maybe they
will call the 4000/040T a new model number.  

And to the alpha processor, it has a rewritable opcode to emulate an 68040
or something like that.  So perhaps that is how they pulled running 
amigados on the alpha.  Of course you would want an os that would run directly
off the risc cpu, ie risc os.

Martin

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipset
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:05:42 GMT

In article <n1157t@ofa123.fidonet.org> Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
>> Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
>> From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
>> Message-ID: <Bz499s.3FI@news.iastate.edu>
>> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
>>
>> >Marc I can't believe in your infinite wisdow that you couldn't come up with
>> >the one word that explains this... MANAGEMENT.
>>
>>   The same management that gave us an Amiga 4000 with an IDE interface?
>
>Yes,  the  management  that  gave us an Amiga 4000 ***TODAY*** instead of 2
>months from now.  If they had stuck the SCSI-II onto the A4000, it probably
>would not be OUT yet!  And it would have cost more when it did come out.  I
>don't see *any* problem with the way they have handled this.  The IDE costs
>almost  NOTHING  to  implement, thus A4000 buyers are saving quite a bit if
>they  dont  need/care about SCSI-II.  For those that do, they can wait till
>the  SCSI-II card comes out and wont be any worse off then if Commodore had
>waited to release the A4000.
>
>I think they did the right thing.

   You are brainless.  is SCSI II the only SCSI design available for use in
a personal computer?  The existing SCSI design used in the A3000 is pseudo-
SCSI II (though hardly a full implementation), and the SCSI chipsets used in
the A3000 are now available quite cheap.

   I agree that Commodore did the right thing by leaving SCSI II out of the
A4000, but I do not think Commodore did the right thing by leaving SCSI out
of the A4000.  In a cost/performance measurement, the A3000's SCSI design 
probably exceeds the SCSI II design that will be used on the A3090 SCSI II
card, especially in a personal computer like the A4000.  Yes, the A3090 will
offer 3-4 times the performance of the A3000, but only with the very latest
and very expensive SCSI II hard drives.  And it is doubtful that SCSI II
chipsets are available very inexpensively yet.

  In short, for a personal computer priced under $3000 -- which would be 
packaged with a slower SCSI hard drive -- the cheaper implementation of SCSI
that the A3000 used would have been fine.  Since the design was already done,
using this design might have actually allowed the A4000 to become available
SOONER.  And the A3090 could still have been marketed for people who wanted
to upgrade their A3000's and A4000's with super-fast high-capacity SCSI II
hard drives.  Finally, implementing the A3000's SCSI design in the A4000 
probably would not have raised the price by much since the SCSI chips used in
the A3000 should be available dirt cheap by now.

---
| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
--------------------------------------------------
From: jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Where is Jeff Young?
Date: 12 Dec 92 08:46:49 GMT
Organization: SOCS - McGill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <1992Dec9.043158.28950@midway.uchicago.edu> sjchmura@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>With Skip Sauls recent J.Y impersination, I was wondering what
>ever happened to the "real thing"?

Me KILL Jeff Young and me EAT HIS BRAIN!!!!

YUMMY small snack!

Me eat BRAIN and now me JUST AS COOL AS JEFF YOUNG!

Seriously, though, I was wondering the same thing.  Where has he gone?


>________________________________________________________________________________Steven Chmura				University of Chicago Medical School(M1)
>  "Given enough time, the impossible becomes probable, and the probable
>	inevitable.."  -George Wald, "On the Origins of Life"
>


-- 
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 "I was wrong to play God.  Life is precious, not a thing to be toyed with.
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From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re:  4 Colour Interfaces :-(
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 19:20:23 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <71259@cup.portal.com> <3013@tymix.Tymnet.COM>

>>Speaking of which, whatever happened to John Draper?
>
>As a matter of fact, I chatted with him the other day in Togo's.
>Homeless.  Looking for a job.  Anyone want to hire him?

Uh. Perhaps the phone company is interested.  John Draper is
mentioned quite prominantly in the book "Hackers". Fascinating
stuff.


TomK@cup.portal.com
Tom Krotchko
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: Dan flipped through an AmigaWorld, and:
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:58:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.021529.20368@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu
(Stephenson Daniel A) writes:

>2) Wow, that WB 2.0 looks AWFUL.  Granted, I haven't actually used it, but
>from the screen shot, it looks SO primitive!  I guess it is the 4 colors only
>that does it.  Really, it hardly looks any better than the mouse-interface 
>for MSDOS 5.0's EDIT.COM.  Or QBasic. You get the picture.  Really, you guys
>may claim Windows and OS/2 looks to flashy/blocky/clumsy, but WB2.0 looks
>primitive as hell!

Let's be fair: what screen shot are you referring to? Many of the images are
either software which does not take advantage of 2.0 (1.3 hold-outs),
aren't style-guide compliant, or are taken from low-resolution displays.

In fact, in the January issue, you'd have a hard time coming up with anything
that didn't fit into the above categories. Unfortunately, most of us feel
the same way you do.
From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Dans uploaded OS/2 Screens SUCK!
Date: 16 Dec 1992 01:51:44 GMT
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
NNTP-Posting-Host: kepler.unh.edu

'>Mr. Greene, perhaps you could make some WPS captures and enlighten these
'>ignorant masses? :-)

	Sorry Dan, I'm afraid I have failed you.  I had to deinstall OS2 the
   other day.  Needed the space for a new image processing package I saw in
   Sky and Telescope.  In another couple months I will be getting another
   HD (240meg), I'll reinstall OS2 then.
							Greg Greene
                                                        ggg@kepler.unh.edu


'>Dan Stephenson                                            das9674@usl.edu  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg)
Subject: Re: Power-up for AGA Machines! rumour.
Organization: IDK/Frontec - System Design Group
Date: 16 Dec 92 19:31:38 GMT

koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
>     CPU                    Speed      Specmarks   Specmarks/MHz
>     ------------------------------------------------------------
>     IBM RS/6000            42 MHz     69          1.64 (best spec/MHz)
[...]
>  There are a number of other announced machines now from HP, Dec, and
> IBM which make the above numbers (77 specmarks) look slow.

Yup. According to press releases from IBM, an RS/6000 model 580 delivers
124.7 SPECmarks at 62.5 MHz, giving a spec/MHz ratio of 1.99.

Reportedly, they are very nice for raytracing... :-)

		-- Bjorn

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From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: What about Amiga sound chip improvements?
Date: 18 Dec 92 05:55:04 GMT
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario

In article <1992Dec17.153550.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> traynor@fnalf.fnal.gov writes:

>I've heard all sorts of facts and figures about the new AGA chipset and the
>4000/1200.  I know there are new graphics chips, but I've heard nothing 
>about improvements in the sound.

An AT&T 32-bit DSP module is slated for release in the late spring, offering
(among other things) CD-quality sound. Upgrades to the existing Paula
chip have been alluded to, but this remains quite speculative. Several
third-party companies are also working on DSP modules, in anticipation of
3.1 device support.