richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (08/04/88)
In article <355@uwslh.UUCP> lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts) writes: > > In my opinion, I think that Commodore's next computer should be >based on a hypercube architecture; have the speed of a Cray (yet it >shouldn't require plasma for coolant); have 23 gigabytes of available >ram (that can be expanded to 256 terabytes); have removable-media >drives with 1 million terabytes of read/write storage; have a >multi-tasking OS with all of the power of UNIX, VMS, OS/[360,2], >MULTICS, [and any other obscure OS you can think of], and with >embedded "AI techniques" to do processing on the command-line and >figure out what you *really* wanted to type as well as have a complete >expert system in it to diagnose problems that you make; have sound >chips that surpass current high-end Kurzweils and FairLights as well >as speech recognition, all in octaphonic sound; and have graphics with >better pixel resolution than 70mm motion-picture film using 32 >bit-planes (4294967295 colors) out of a palette of 1 google possible >colors, all being displayed on a 1-meter diagonal, 32768 x 32768 pixel >color monitor. Oh yeah, and the basic system should be all of the >above (with only one drive, to cut down costs) and be available for >under $200. I sincerely think that if CBM can get this out in under a >year, that you will probably blow the Macintosh and IBM markets to >kingdom come! And two serial ports for Peter da Silva. -- AI is a shell game. richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard
mwjones@lion.waterloo.edu (Morgan Jones) (08/05/88)
In article <5144@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >In article <355@uwslh.UUCP> lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts) writes: >> >> In my opinion, I think that Commodore's next computer should be >>based on a hypercube architecture; have the speed of a Cray (yet it ... >And two serial ports for Peter da Silva. And FIX and DO keys on the keyboard. I've been looking for a keyboard with these two keys working, but I've been having the darndest time. So what do you think? A DO key in 1.4? -- Morgan Jones mwjones@lily.waterloo.edu
andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) (08/09/88)
In article <8128@watdragon.waterloo.edu> mwjones@lion.waterloo.edu (Morgan Jones) writes: >And FIX and DO keys on the keyboard. I've been looking for a keyboard with >these two keys working, but I've been having the darndest time. > >So what do you think? A DO key in 1.4? A DO key is certainly possible. The more useful "Do What I Want" key would be a different matter. -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "If we can't fix it, it ain't broke." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.