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- From: crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com (Shane Kuntz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Motorola pricelist (was RE: CPU MHz in A1200+)
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 23:17:27 GMT
- Organization: SDRC
- Sender: crkuntz@sgiis4 (Shane Kuntz)
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- In article <4d0jen$ao8@serpens.rhein.de>, mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- |> Thomas Karlsen <sledge@algonet.se> writes:
- |>
- |> >The best choice would be to have the A1200+ equipped with an 40Mhz EC030
- |> >chip and a Processor Direct Slot like in the A3000/A4000 models.
- |>
- |> Huh ? The trapdoor _is_ a CPU slot.
- |>
- |> >located near the CPU and the old trapdoor or similar slot should still be
- |> >there aswell for other cards.
- |>
-
- What AT should look into is a standard slot that the 1200/4000 can both use.
- It may increase the size of the trap door in the 1200 but it would cut the
- price of upgrade cards as developers would only have to develop one standard.
-
- I would also recommend that whichever processor they go with be on the
- expansion board. When you wanted to upgrade you trade in your old board
- and buy the new one minus the trade up offer. This would benefit users,
- because the upgrade path would be cheaper with the trade up and it would
- benefit AT because they would have a stock of processor boards they could
- throw into new machines (eliminating manufacturing of new processor boards
- every time) and offer them at a discount.
-
- One last thing I would do is put a option in the 1200 to hook up an external
- mini-tower design with a few zorro/pci slots. Similar to the optional port the
- 1200's have on the back now (gvp used it for an external scsi connector).
-
- Just my 10 cents.
-
- |> Hardly. If you want an expandable machine you have to buy one with
- |> slots.
- |>
- With my options.. one could buy a 1200 and expand it into near 4000t
- capability. Also, one could trick out a 1200 with a PPC board and then
- buy a 4000T with no processor and use the processor board out of the 1200
- when/if he/she wanted to.
-
- Oop.. make that 15 cents.
-
- Shane
-
- |> --
- |> Michael van Elst
- |>
- |> Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
- |> "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
-