hr@uicsl.UUCP (08/26/86)
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I have some questions for someone who saw the Commodore booth
at Siggraph:
1) Aegis had an 'Amiga' monitor that someone mentioned was made
by Mitsubishi. It appeared to be a long persistence tube. Does anyone
know what the Mitsubishi model number?
2) There was a company demoing Soundscape, I think. They had a MIDI
keyboard that I think was a Yamaha DX100. Was this the real model number
and how good is it?
3) At one point, one of the exibitors had two monitors on top of each
other on top of a PAL expansion box... on top of an Amiga. How much weight
can be safely stacked on the little guy? I'd have asked Dale, but he seemed
rather busy.
CSA was showing off their expansion box with the 68020. Their data sheet
said that Absoft and Aztec (I think) are both supplying compilers that
take advantage of the 68020/68881 combo. While it was interesting to see
the Amiga chug along on the Mandelbrot set, it didn't really compare to
Sun's demo. Their system had an attached processor to help out. Something
called a "Convex C-1". :)
Sublogic's Flight Simulator didn't look nearly as good as the films we saw of
the E&S CT-6 (?) flight simulator. But then the E&S system is something like
3 orders of magnitude more expensive! I belive Flight Simulator is scheduled
for release around September.
I spent entirely toooo much time at the Amiga booth.
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harold ravlin {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!uicsl!hr