garyh@iddic.UUCP (Gary Hanson) (09/07/85)
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Does Commodore listen to the people who have development systems? It's
probably a hopeless cause, but it looks like it would be nice if they could
swap the positions of the CTRL and CAPS LOCK keys. Also, what is the purpose
of the logo keys on either side of the spacebar?
BTW, love that cursor down key in the Amigaworld photos.
Gary Hanson Tektronix IDG ...!tektronix!iddic!garyhnather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) (09/08/85)
> <> > > Does Commodore listen to the people who have development systems? It's > probably a hopeless cause, but it looks like it would be nice if they could > swap the positions of the CTRL and CAPS LOCK keys. Naaaaaaaah. Then you could avoid hitting Caps Lock except when you wanted to. > Also, what is the purpose > of the logo keys on either side of the spacebar? Either one acts as a SYSTEM RESET! ...Be careful with your thumbs! > Gary Hanson Tektronix IDG ...!tektronix!iddic!garyh I find it fascinating that I have not seen a single negative comment on the Amiga in this newsgroup. Are real netpeople contributing, or are all the articles written by the Commodore Sales Department? "Computers are always much better before delivery than afterward ..." -- Ed Nather Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather nather@astro.UTEXAS.EDU
davecl@orca.UUCP (Dave Clemans) (09/17/85)
If you want a negative comment... My understanding is that the Amiga is designed with in a sense two memory busses, with the display processors only talking to one of them; thus if you run from memory on the second "bus" your performance wouldn't be affected by traffic on the display "bus". However to use the second "bus" you have to buy an expansion box at extra cost. The only memory expansion possibilities within the box seem to be an extra 256K for the display "bus", making a total of 512K. This total also seems to be the limit for the display "bus". 512K would seem to me to be somewhat limited if you wanted to do a lot with high resolution playfields. I also recently saw a message on Compuserve that the Amiga graphics processors can only address 512K, and thus even if you could add more display memory you couldn't use it (i.e. 1MB chips wouldn't help you...). Does anybody know whether or not this is true? dgc