From: sjchmura@kimbark.uchicago.edu (steven joseph chmura)
Subject: Re: Notebook Computers Dominate Comdex
Reply-To: sjchmura@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:44:45 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.135654.1740@msus1.msus.edu> lkoop@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU writes:
>In article <By42DI.Itp@news.iastate.edu>, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov21.060046.29546@midway.uchicago.edu> sjchmura@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>In article <By1vnx.7HM@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>>>>In article <1992Nov20.161639.6403@tc.fluke.COM> kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
>>>>>barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>>>>>>   The obvious questions are: when is Commodore going to develop a notebook
>>>>>>Amiga???  Will it be when the growth of notebook sales has slowed and some
>>>>>As usual MB doesn't get it.
>>>>   Commodore would be in the notebook computer market with a notebook Amiga
>>>>if their engineers could develop one.
>>>	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^         
>>>Marc, the quality of your posts is degenerating.  I remember a time when
>>>
>>>But this is rediculous.  "if their engineers could develop one" is simply
>>>stupid.  Their engineers could ceartinly put a battery pack on a A600.
						^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
MArc, this was not meant as a serious proposition for a portable Amiga.
My post was directed at your tone and not at your "facts."  You claim
the engineers are incapble of doing this because they are somehow
inept.  I do not believe this is true.  Whether a notebook AMiga
is feasible both financially and in weight was not the point.  You 
attidute toward the EE's was the issue.

>>
>>   That is the stupidest statement I have heard for a LONG time.  Putting a 
>>
>>   You do not realize the amount of engineering that would be involved in
				^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Learn how to read.  Mayber if you  attended a real school with a real
football team you could do better :)

>>making a true notebook Amiga.  Suffice it to say, designing a notebook Amiga
>>would make the design of the A4000 look like child's play.
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For an undergrad you sure know a lot.  Maybe you can work in my lab this
summer where we design hardware and software.                

>>   Perhaps you just do not realize what a notebook computer is.  Most notebook
>>computers weigh less than four pounds, including the LCD display, battery
Well, I am typing on one right now

>>   Please do not stick your foot so far into your moth next time.  It must be
>>embarassing for you.
>
Nope.  I think you look stupid when you condemn everyone without reading
the intent of the posts.  Look Marc, I am not going to debate who
"knows more about X" because it is pointless.  Have fun at your second/third
rate univeristy and at your job helping people boot WP5.1.  Some of us
work in feilds closely realted to these topics and are not always in the
mood to talk about the engineering aspects of everything under the sun.



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________________________________________________________________________________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"