From: MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu (Norman St. John Polevaulter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A40000 in stores by October 7
Summary: The more things change...
Date: 3 Oct 92 06:39:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: psuvm.92277.023946MBS110
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In article <1992Oct2.222713.59395@cc.usu.edu>, slbfn@cc.usu.edu says:
>  WOW.  In the 22nd century, the powerfull Amiga 40000 has been realesed.
>  Alot has changed.  For one, C= has been taken over by our freinds from
>  BLAZEMONGER!  New features in Kickstart 1531.45 and Workbench 1510.99
>  include:

>              1.  Infinite bit graphics.

Hah. The Infinite Graphics chipset only goes up to aleph-null colors.
I can say with full confidence this is ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY, ABSOLUTE
GARBAGE compared to the SWARAGA (Super Whizbang Awesome Really Advanced
Graphics Adapter) cards shipping in the latest 89886 PC's. Those go up
to aleph-ONE colors! A full order of reality higher than the pitiful infinity
colors you can get from Amiga! It makes me sick Commodore even attempts to
market this tripe.

>              2.  Infinite resolution.

Phooey. Does the Amiga 40000 have four-dimensional graphics (horizontal,
vertical, depth, AND extending into parallel universes!) like the NeXT
Tesseract? Thought not. That old 3-D blitter and custom chip set are really
behind the times.

>              3.  Infinite bit sound.

You should hear the Rolling-Roland SOUNDMONGER card shipped with my friend's
89886. It can swamp the electromagnetic spectrum of an entire star system!

>              4.  Usage of Motorola's powerful 9999MHz 98068090 CPU
>                  with MMU, MUM, UUM, and now MUU

Admittedly we've got the advantage here; the 89886 is still segmented and
backwards-compatible with the old IBM XT's... still, this isn't a problem
with flat-mem operating systems. Microsoft promises that Windows NT will
be released by Summer 2157 at the latest, and it should take care of this.

>              5.  Usage of Motorola's powerful 9999MHz 98069992 FPU

Yesterday's technology. The 89886 goes at least 15GHz.

>              6.  "Cold-fusion" powered.  This remarkable technology
>                  provides an infinite power source as well as cooling
>                  down the 9999MHz CPU and FPU

But the Silicon Graphics Tartan-Plaid uses ANTIMATTER for power and cooling.
Sure, you have to be REALLY careful not to drop it, but boy can that thing
support the add-on peripherals, like petabyte hard drives, holodecks, and
the electricity grids for entire nations!

>              7.  OS is standard BLAZEMONGER style, offering the popular
>                  multitasking AI interface.  Yes, your Amiga may now
>                  get into fights with itself.  Watch in amazement as
>                  your C= 19600 monitor gets a black eye-- I mean, screen!

This is nothing new. Why, in the MS-DOS world, programs have been stepping
on each other's memory space since the 20th century!

>              8.  Independant thought processing module.  Yes!  You've waited
>                  for it, now it is here!  NO more keyboard!  No more mouse!
>                  Everything is thought driven!

Big deal! When practically every PClone shipped out of the Mars autofactories
comes equipped standard with the Microsoft Thought-So interface and But-I-
Thought-You-Meant interpreter? This is too little, too late. Anyway, Origin's
upcoming software release STRIKE COMMANDER will make full use of thought
processing. It's supposed to be really cool.

>              9.  DIG?  You don't NEED DIG!  You've got infinite everything
>                  graphics!!! (IEG chip set)

Like I said, the IEG doesn't support four-dimensional graphics. Worthless.

>             10.  TIME TRAVEL!  Yes, now thru BLAZEMONGER's advanced TTY
>                  interface, we have been able to send the powerfull Amiga
>                  40000 into the 20th century.  You can enjoy it now,
>                  in late 1992 at Ben William's Dealer!

Worst of all, the A40000 doesn't have a keyboard garage. Just 'cause it's
small enough to fit in your pocket is no excuse!

If C= doesn't get with the program and release the midrange IAG machines
and a REALLY advanced A50000 by next Thursday, they're toast. I'm heading
down to Mad Gzyxptl's House of Clones tomorrow to do some pricing, and I
bet C= comes down on the short end of the deal. Hmf!

                  "Two hundredth verse, same as the first!"
[Your blood pressure just went up.]        Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu
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