scott@CIE.UOREGON.EDU (11/16/89)
WANTED-- BADLY.
I'm looking to buy a new computer to replace my trusty old Atari ST.
1) It must use the Motorola 68030 or 68040 CPU and be multi-tasking
as standard.
2) It must be very very fast for number crunching and graphics.
3) It must have a very very fast bus that meets the following:
A) The bus must have 32 bit address and data lines.
B) The bus must allow for multiple bus masters.
C) The bus must allow backplanes for extra slots to be added
from one slot.
D) The bus must be a standard that has lots of cheap third
party boards on the market including:
1. A standard graphics board of at least one Mb of
bit mapped resolution.
2. Memory boards for expanding up to the full addressable
limit at full CPU speed.
3. A LAN.
4. Weird and wonderful devices.
4) It must come in a rugged expandable case with a hefty power supply.
5) It must have lots of i/o capability built-in, including:
A) SCSI.
B) Standard Centronics parallel.
C) Serial.
6) It must have a battery backed clock.
7) It must have a full, nice feeling keyboard with cursor keys
arranged for easy use, a numeric keypad, and function keys.
8) It must have a mouse.
9) There must be lots of very fast, cheap, high capacity hard drives
available for it.
10) It must be able to transfer data to/from the hard drives at the
full speed allowed by the drive mechanism.
11) It must have a comfortable internal architecture for programming
with lots of interrupt and i/o control done by support chips.
12) There must be lots of software support for it, including:
A) A cheap, full featured UNIX. (real UNIX)
B) A cheap, really good, ANSI standard C complier with a source
level debugger.
C) A cheap, really good wordprocessor.
D) A cheap, really good desktop publishing program.
E) A cheap, really good CAD program.
F) Many other programming languages.
G) A huge, growing public domain base.
13) It must have really good stereo sound.
14) There must be lots of people using and supporting it.
15) It must be really cheap.
If you have seen this computer around, please tell me. I want to
buy it. My phone number is 686-0808, or you can write to
scott@cie.uoregon.edu.