From: hcheng@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Dr. Hsueh-li Cheng)
Subject: Re: Questions for people attending WOC
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:40:03 GMT

In article <+l0yv+q@rpi.edu> danaf@rpi.edu writes:
>|> In article <13764.2ab0ec2b@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> tine@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>|> >In article <2AB110B1.21230@news.service.uci.edu>, rcaslis@anansi.acs.uci.edu (Russell Caslis) writes:
>|> >
>|> 
>|> the statement he made regarding work with the MPEG chipset internally
>|> and one's imagination can really take off...
>
>Yeah, well, watch out for that ol' imagination. I let my imagination run away
>on the A4000. I imagined new, PC-killer resolutions, the DIG standard we've been
>begging for for so long, and improved 16-bit sound. I was let down.
>
>BTW: While I'm on the topic, I'm sick of hearing about how great the A4000 and/
>or the Amiga line will be in "6 months"  or "two years" or "someday". Live in
>the present, guys. The IDE interface in the A4000 is NOT excused by the fact that
>a SCSI board will be ready "soon". The inclusion of the old Paula chip is NOT
>excused by the fact (?) that we will have a DSP card "in 6 months". If the
>A4000 was not READY, it shouldn't have been RELEASED! Commodore pulled the same
>crap with the A3000 - you got a beta version (for all intents and purposes...) 
>of the O/S, and missed out on a lot of improvements. 
>
>So, if the A4000 isn't FINISHED yet, why didn't Commodore wait 9 months, get it
>__DONE__, and release it at the WOC New York next summer? 
>
>**SH_T**
>

	You kidding, right?  Sure, it would have been great if Commodore
had released the A4000 with SCSI and 16-bit DSP all at one time.  However
I feel that Commodore made a wise decison to release the A4000 now even
if this might not be the final version. For the past year or so things 
were looking pretty grim for Commodore since they were being surpassed
by other platforms in areas it used to be king of the hill in, most
notably the video department.  It was kinda embarressing to claim an amiga
as a high-end graphics micro without the capability to display a hires 256
color screen right out the box.   
	If we had to wait nine more months to see something out of 
Commodore, I'm sure many of us would decide to jump ship.  As it stands
now, my hope for Commodore has been renewed since now I know that they
have been actually developing something all along and are developing
greater things for the future.  Plus, not everyone necessarily needs or
wants a SCSI interface or a DSP.  Why not let the people who want the 
current A4000 buy it like it is now and you buy the improved version nine
months later?  Nothing wrong with earning some extra money for R&D and 
building up the AGA user base at the same time.  Heck, if the A4000 w/
SCSI and DSP was released nine months later, I'm sure there would be people
wondering why C= didn't release the AGA chipset nine months earlier.
	Lighten up. Better things are yet to come...
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Joseph
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