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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: New slot box Amiga
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 17:47:36 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Byron Montgomerie (bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : A prototype of the new AMIGA will be shown for the first time worldwide at
- : the CeBIT fair in Hannover, Germany. AMIGA Technologies GmbH will hereby
- : expand the AMIGA product line for the advanced home user and the
- : semi-professional market. Modularity, futuristic design and expansion
- : capability are the main edges of the new product.
-
- Hmm, not another Gecko I hope. :)
-
- : The motherboard features two SIMM sockets, on which the memory can be
- : increased up to 128 MB. This AMIGA comes standard with a quad-speed
- : CD-ROM drive. The main processor used will be the 680EC30 / 40
-
- Recent price reductions have brought these down to 2x limits at the retail
- level.
-
- : MHz. This combination allows a product at a tight price with a good
- : computing power. With the available flexible expansion bus, turbo cards
- : with processors like the 68060 or the PowerPC will be easily
- : installable.
-
- Sounds proprietary if they can use existing cards.
-
- : This expansion bus can also be used with graphics cards, multi-serial cards,
- : MPEG cards etc. The modular concept makes the addition of further slots
- : possible, so that the user can define how many expansion slots he will have in
- : his machine. This way, the basic machine can be turned into a tower. This
- : design concept will be the base of the coming AMIGA Generation.
-
- Hmmm, if this is not PCI (or compatible) then we are back in the proprietary
- interface business again where we can't use PC cards and have to pay 4 times
- the price for their equivalents. The ability to go to a tower case is good
- though.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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