esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker) (08/29/89)
In article <1989Aug29.041045.25405@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> bralick@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (William Anthony Bralick) writes: >In article <43903@tiger.oxy.edu> dand@oxy.edu (Daniel D. Fineman) writes: >> >>Question: will the Amy survive? > >Any truth to the rumors that HP is looking to acquire the Amiga as a >low-end workstation to complement their (newly acquired) Apollo >models? Close, actually HP is looking to aquire the Amiga as a high end workstation to migrate to as they phase out the Apollo line 8-). With an Amiga2000, a 25 MHz 68030 board, the Ameristar Ethernet, full 9 meg memory, the ECS chip set, v1.4 operating system, and a good 19 inch 1280x800 monitor you can easily outperform most of the Apollo line. What missing from the picture you say? Oh well, it doesn't have an EDSI drive controlloer for those 320 Mbyte drives. Virtual memory would be nice. We need memory boards that work outside the 9Mbyte base machine limit of the Amiga (Our Apollo server uses 32 Mbyte completely.) And damn, why are there still no readily available tape drives with software support for the Amiga? BTW. I use the Apollos at work, I would prefer an Amiga. But I doubt if VTItools will ever port their ASIC development tools. The Amiga still has some growing up to do before it would be a serious competitor to the Apollo. -- ---------- Lawrence W. Esker ---------- Modern Amish: Thou shalt not need any \ * * * ******* / computer that is not IBM compatible. \ * * * * * / \ * * * * * ***** / Sr. Hardware/ASIC Design Engineer \ * * * * * * / Allen-Bradley Communications Div. \ ******* * * ******* / Work: (313)668-2500 Home: (313)973-8561 ----------------------------- Compuserve: 76337,2524 UseNet Path: __!mailrus!sharkey!itivax!abaa!esker == esker@abaa.UUCP