
Craig,

This is in response to your request for inputs on what our sections charter
should be.  I am not sure where we currently stand as far as our efforts
contributing to the success of the Spectrum program.  Our (IHO) highest
priority objective is to replace the HP 3000.  I am concerned that we
will not have enough resource to get everything in place for two very different
products at the same time.  If we have the hardware ready on schedule and
do not have the other things in place then will will have wasted a lot
of effort.  I think that it would be a mistake to try introduce an
incomplete product.  I think that we need to make sure that there is
a reasonable chance that everything can get done to make Firefox
a timely and complete product.  Below are some things that we
might investigate doing.

.AL
.LI
What would it take to make Firefox a good HP 3000 replacement?  Is it
just a matter of porting the software?  Is the I/O expander necessary
and sufficient?  Could we leverage the Indigo product design?
.LI
Develop a Spectrum SPU that could be used in a single user engineering
workstation.  Could we use the Bobcat product design?  Could we design
a Spectrum CPU board for the RODIO bus?  Could this be made compatible with
the architecture?  How big of an effort would it take to get series 200 software
ported to a spectrum processor?
.LE

