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- From: mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Power Amiga questions
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 14:56:52 GMT
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- TAOBERLY@DELPHI.COM (TAOBERLY@news.delphi.com) wrote:
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- : 2. I was reading an article in Byte concering the CHRP standard, now
- : called simply the "PowerPC Platform". It seems either the standard wasn't
- : completely set in stone, or IBM, Apple, and Motorola made some changes.
- : Anyway, one thing mentioned was support for _either_ IBM PS/2 or Apple
- : Desktop Bus (ADB) mouse interfaces. This is trivial, I know, but as AT
- : has said they would abide by the standard, it implies we'll all be using
- : IBM mice on the Power Amigas. There is no mention of joysticks, so I
- : wonder where they will go with these?
-
- In order for a computer system to be CHRP it must include these
- things. That does not mean that, in addition to these features, it
- cannot add additional ports, like Amiga mouse/joystick ports.
-
- Matt Harrell
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