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- Path: news.primenet.com!krishna
- From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@primenet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 060 vs PowerPC?
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 03:10:02 -0700
- Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010
- Sender: root@primenet.com
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-
- The mortal Steve Koren wrote:
-
- : PS - I sure hope that those Amiga users still using ECS or AGA and
- : 68020s will actually buy PPC Amigas. If people insist on hanging onto
- : hopelessly out of date hardware for years and years, the Amiga market
- : *will* die completely.
-
- Hopefully the PPC upgrades for older machines will allow older Amigas to
- stay current (with Zorro being the only limitation). If the new native
- PPC OS is written correctly, it could also be used with the old machines
- via accellerators the same way OS 3.1 works with most all amigas.
-
- Odds are the new PPC Amigas will be so expensive that it will be
- economically viable to buy PPC upgrades for existing machines.
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