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- From: manou.billa@ci.educ.lu (Manou BILLA)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 23:25:10 GMT
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- Message-ID: <2428.6575T103T1954@ci.educ.lu>
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- On 31-Dec-95 06:34:01, Ruud Dingemans (rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote to All
- () about Re: The March Amiga? (<rdingem.42v9@grafix.xs4all.nl>):
-
- Hi Ruud Dingemans
-
- >In a message of 29 Dec 95 Michael D Shotter wrote to All:
-
- MDS>> OK. Here's the deal. I want a new Amiga. I don't mean some A1200
- MDS>> variant bundle. I want a NEW machine. The question is, when will I
- MDS>> get it?
-
- >1997 at the earliest.
-
- MDS>> Is the machine AT plans to show at CeBIT a new design? of is it
- MDS>> just a crap chip ram 1200 /w 40 MHZ 030?
-
- >Well, it's probably a new design with SIMM slots, based on a crap
- >chip RAM A1200 w/ 40 Mhz 030.... ;)
-
- An new Amiga chips (according to Gilles Bourdin @ the AMIGA show in Paris
- beginning Dec 95) which will provide the possibility to use standard HD floppy
- drives (as the real AMIGA HD floppy drives are no longer made, and a new
- production would be too expensive). If these chips will also be the new gfx
- chips wasn't said. But on the other hand Gilles stated that NEW designed
- AMIGAs will have new GFX chips (24 bit gfx, chunky and planar, 16 bit sound
- plus some ideas from AAA).
-
- [these infos are from the french AMIGANews mag (Jan/96)]
-
-
- >Basically, you gets what you pays for.
-
- MDS>> I'm not asking for a lot. I just want a little 040 box with
- >a MDS> couple slots, PCI preferibly since PCI will be a must when
- >things go MDS> PPC next year and a slot for a PPC upgrade. I'd also
-
- >That is asking for a lot, actually - in an economical sense, because
- >it would drive a low-end amiga right into the price range of low-end
- >PC's, where it would be trashed entirely. The low-end Amigas need to
- >be cheaper than the competition, for that is the only chance it has to
- >survive at the moment.
-
- The PPCboard from Phase will have a new 64 bit bus (Zorro 4 ???) with the
- option for an addon PCI bus ;-)
-
-
- --
- Bye Manou
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