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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Reports from CeBit
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 17:47:42 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- Pete and Vicki (vpollard@sos.sos.net) wrote:
- : > 5 mb RAM
-
- : This should be 2MB chip and 6MB fast IMHO.
-
- It will be 2MB chip and 4 MB fast, lots of simm sockets anyway so you can
- add as much as you can afford.
-
- : Oh boy, that'll be handy for all those stupid devices like the DITTO...
- : hanging off a parallel port, giving poor performance... the sort of thing
- : that brainless pclone users go for, because they figure that I/O
- : performance isn't important. WHY can't they spend this money on SCSI???
-
- Because they figure third parties can do it better. EIDE will allow for 4
- devices which is enough for most users anyway. Most PCs only come with
- EIDE.
-
- : > MIDI
-
- : Well that's a nice gesture... but what about an audio in port? I'd be
- : perfectly happy with 8bit mono. If home users can build their own for
-
- Most PC sound cards offer audio in so I would agree that this would be a
- nice addition. Then again there are plenty of audio digitizers out there
- for the amiga already. Since the amiga parralel port will be next to useless
- compared to the PC one it could be used for this.
-
- : > Expansion slot for further upgrade to:
- : > PCI
- : > Zorro III/IV
-
- : Gee, they did something right. But I wonder how much this PCI/Zorro
- : daughterboard will be, and when/if it'll become available. I also wonder
-
- Depends on third party companies.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
-