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- From: flundin@algonet.se (Fredrik Lundin)
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- Subject: Re: Hooray for Amiga Tech.
- Date: 14 Feb 1996 19:15:48 GMT
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- >: Is this prototype going to be available by Xmas? If so, are they making it
- >: a PPC machine?
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- >I would hope that it will be available by Christmas.
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- >AT themselves are unsure what the machine will wind up being, its design
- >has been outsourced to another firm. From the best indications
- >available, it will be a slot-box machine with AGA. No, not PowerPC, they
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- If it have a A3000/4000 CPU-slot and one or more PCI-slot, and it's fine
- with AGA if they put a PCI slot in there.
- Let me put it this way. I rather have *one* PCI slot than 20 ZorroIII..
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- If Windows95 can do plug n' play PCI, it shouldn't be a huge task to
- implement PCI on the Amiga MB and autoconfig PCI in the OS.
- (I'm mainly thinking of PCI gfx-cards)
-
- >wouldn't have a chance of being done by then, as they are only now having
- >joint meetings with Motorola and Phase5.
-
- Sigh. And remember the summer? 6 weeks of holiday all over Europe.
- Time's moving, others don't..
-
- >Jason Compton jcompton@xnet.com
- >Editor-in-Chief, Amiga Report Magazine (708) 741-0689 FAX
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- Fredrik Lundin \ "Some folks you don't have to satirize, you just quote em"
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