This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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>> Then you may have an advertising fraud claim against Commodore (good luck!). Just assuming for a moment that this particularly bizarre claim had a shred of truth to it, don't you think that others would have rushed in to provide a RISC accelerator for the Amiga? PMFJI, but –…
#Escom -UUGH!!!
Message #208271
Marion, >> And some kind of Mac emulator, too. If Escom uses PowerPC and CHRP, you could emulate Macs in software. You wouldn't need a special hardware emulator. Tony
#Changes at CIS!!!
Message #208270
Bart, PMFJI but — >> I can only agree. The only thing I wanted to make clear is that 8-bit *as such* has nothing to do with it. You are of course when you say that an 8-bit machine *may* lack the horsepower. It doesn't need to. If I recall…
>> Yeah, I once tried to figure out how big a lottery I needed to win so I could live in the country and helicopter to the city at will. Sigh… Some of us up here in Central New York don't see the point. Hit the jackpot and retire to…
>> The ST was dropped when the Falcon came out. The Falcon was semi-dropped when the Jaguar came out. Atari's plans are to weld the Jaguar and the Falcon together to get a fast home computer. They may have dropped those plans when they saw what happened to the Amiga.…
>> PMFJI here, but: (Me, too…) >> Why not? Microsoft does it all the time (hehehe)…. Naw, that's only so's they can sell you the UPGRADE. >> (Sorry; couldn't resist.) S' OK. They deserve it. 8-{) Tony
Mr. Zombie, See my reply to Grant Boucher's original complaint. Long live the 3000! Tony
Grant, >> Tell Alex not to bother with releasing the A4000/040 at the $2199 price >> point unless he A) adds burst mode so the damn thing runs at a decent 040 >> speed, or B) has a built in warp engine 28mhz as a CPU daughtercard >> replacement. The…
>> C= bought Amiga out from under the nose of Atari, … One more time – Atari was in NO WAY interested in the Amiga other than maybe looking for patent infringement (probably due to the fact that the chief designers of the Amiga nee Lorraine were at one time…
>> >> The new company will probably be called Atari (SIC) … >> SICK!!! >> Or is there any chance that Jack Tramiel, one of the founders of Commodore and now owner of Atari, is jumping back in with financing? Now THERE'S a heck of a rumor to start! Maybe…
#Comdex
Message #173746
Tab, >> Dell is selling … 128-bit video … Think about this. PCI buss is currently 32 bits, expandable to 64. The human eye has trouble distinguishing individual colors at 24 bits. So, just WHAT in that Dell machine is 128 bits? Tony T. The guy with the 64-bit Jaguar
Wayne! Great Idea! BRING BACK THE CHECKMARK! I have! Ever since C= quit, I've been putting checkmarks on everything. (Just added one to my boss' Gateway MS-DOS box! Got one on mine too!) Tony