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
wescott@LNIC1.HPRC.UH.EDU (Andrew M. Wescott) (08/30/89)
Yeah, I'll bet the entire Amiga line will obsolete the dn10000 and its offspring. You seem to assume the Apollo/HP will develop nothing beyond the 68030. We all know the 68040 is just around the corner pending some legal issues. Since Apollo has developed an excellent risc architecture in PRISM, and the rest of the industry is selling desktop risc, common sense dictates that Apollo will develope a risc desktop. I mean why would HP buy Apollo if they didn't think they could learn anything from the people in Chelmsford ? Nobody has that much idle cash. I am still laughing... I guess next year the Amiga will put all the CRAY YMPs out to pasture!!!! Get serious. Andrew Wescott University of Houston Department of Chemical Engineering