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- From: ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk (Action Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A1200+
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 10:31:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <820665134.20361@alladin.demon.co.uk>
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- wmaddock@icon-stl.net (William F. Maddock) wrote:
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- >On 02-Jan-96 22:00:17 ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk Action Jackson wrote:
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- >>I would perper if AT left out the Floppy. I have an A1200 and using
- >>floppy games are a PAIN IN THE BUT. insert disk 4/6 then move two
- >>spaces then insert disk 2/6 etc... (Very few Amiga games install on
- >>Hard disks).
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- >>I would much perfer a CD drive and have WB come on bootable CD...
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- >I seriously hope you mean have WB come on *installable* CD. If you have to
- >boot from the WB CD you then get into CD swapping. This is no better then
- >floppy swapping.
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- It should be both. It should BOOT off the CD. Then if you have HD,
- allow you to install whatever options you want onto the HD (allowing
- for space & Specification & Desire) ie:
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- Installation options:
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- MMU Protection (YES/NO)
- Virtual Memory (Partation/Swap File/No)
- Postscript Library (YES/NO)
- X-Windows (YES/NO)
- Open-GL (YES/NO)
- Fonts (Select)
- Network Support (YES/NO)
- E-Mail/Web Browser/FTP/Gopher/Archie
- TCP-IP setup...SLIP/PPP/Ethernet
- MC680xx Support (For Power PC machines)
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