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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
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- Subject: Re: Motorola pricelist (was RE: CPU MHz in A1200+)
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- Date: 15 Jan 1996 12:17:36 +0100
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- crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com (Shane Kuntz) writes:
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- > 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 doubt that this will help. A3000s and A4000s have the same CPU slot,
- but inventive people made A4000-only CPU cards.
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- Besides, the form factor requirements for A4000 and A1200 are different.
-
- > 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).
-
- Hmm. That's what you could do now, but it wouldn't be cheap.
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