CompuServe Messages

> Get real the only thing that matters is how productive a > machine is PERIOD. You are 100% percent correct. However you reach a point where a great OS and chipset just can't make up for a poor CPU. In the end, it will take longer to reflow that 100 page document, or recalculate your huge spreadsheet. If your machine is fast enough for you then you should be content and keep plugging! 🙂 To down side is that a very large part of the market needs the raw horse power and they will not buy a machine they feel can't crunch the numbers. No power = less speed less speed = less sales less sales = company in negative value, tottering on edge. Moral to the fairy tale? Even if _you_ don't need the raw power, someone else might. Some machine in the line should offer it to compete with the other unwashed machines out there. The '060 is a holding action. It will give a needed shot in the arm to the Amiga. But within 6-12 months the native software and new OS's will be out there for the RISC competition. Then the 604 will hit the streets. Then the 620 will hit the streets, etc, etc. Will there be an '080? The RISC curve is _just_ starting. The PowerPC will have shipped 3 generations (601, 603, and 604) between '040 and '060. I _love_ the 68K instruction set, and have done extensive low level tinkering in it. It is way cooler than the 80×86 line, but it, like the 80×86, isn't up to tomorrows tasks. It's sad, but in ten years, the history books will probably remember the '060 as a great laser printer engine. Oh well. —– Andrew