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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga WALKER (new slot-box)
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 10:13:49 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4i0uct$q3t@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <4htb8a$ng0@rock101.genie.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Summary: Still lowend?
- Keywords: See previous Sinclair-Day post!
-
- In article <4htb8a$ng0@rock101.genie.net>,
- IAN J. EINMAN <i.einman@genie.com> wrote:
- >Apparently the working name for the prototype is the "Walker". Hmm..
-
- So it WILL come standard with the Internet pack?
-
- Maybe they should bundle the game "Walker" with it also! :)
-
- (See my previous post of Peter Sinclair-Day talking about how "slow" the
- 030 is in todays computing world and the Amiga Web Browser being called
- "MindWALKER" compared to other "fast" CPUS and their software like
- Navigator and Explorer representing that "speed". :-)
-
- >But there is more to this than meets the eye. People have been bitching about the
- >EC030/40, I agree somewhat. But there are a few things that are included (or are
- >expected to be) that people haven't mentioned:
- >
- >1. It has an additional parallel port, bidirectional (ParNet?)
-
- Nice.
-
- >2. High speed serial port, and MIDI capable.
-
- Wouldn't this mean a new Paula etc? Or do you mean a new "modem port"?
-
- >3. PC HD Floppy controller, so we get high-density back.
-
- Is this along with Paula and the normal Amiga connection serial (drive) port?
-
- >4. The slot inside is a CPU slot.
-
- Instead of in the trapdoor.. nice.
-
- >5. Additional stackable units can be added to it, to add only the expansion
- > you need. Build a tower, or whatever.
-
- Will be nice to see. Will we see a tradeoff of the base machine being
- cheaper and the expansion "towers" being expensive?
-
- >This is apparently in the prototype, soon to be shown.
-
- As of a few more days!
-
- >included in 3.2 is some sort of networking support, and this seems to be supported by someone
- >adding a parallel port (usable for networking with a Parnet cable). Why else would you use
- >2 parallel ports?
-
- That would be nice also.. but would the extra parallel port be used for
- connecting the upper "towers" instead?
-
- >Most of this is quoted from Michael Metz, in a post on Compuserve.
-
- One question I have.. is how is this going to affect compatability with
- 3.1 OS and older apps/software and hardware? What about the PCMCIA port?
- By the sounds of it, this is gone, which means support for it taken out of
- the OS ROM or is this still the "expansion bus" they are referring to?
-
- -=*George*=-
-