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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 16:18:16 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Message-ID: <4i6sg8$t1i@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Jason Compton (jcompton@flood.xnet.com) wrote:
- : Jeff Grimmett (jgrimm@bitnova.com) wrote:
- : : rand@maui.netwave.net (Rand R. Fredricksen) wrote:
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- : : >I believe neither one is often used by the average consumer. But an FPU can be
- : : >slotted, a CPU swap is required to incorporate the MMU. You might look more
-
- : : Who says the MMU can't be socketed? I know it was socketed for use with
- : : the 020, and unless there are special signal lines required for MMU usage
- : : AND the EC030 lacks them, I don't see this as a problem.
-
- : I think you'd be hard pressed to find a good supply of 68551s. And it's
- : just a stupid solution to what shouldn't even be a problem. AT has to be
- : willing to LEAD, not meekly follow where everyone else has abandoned. An
- : EC 030 is not a leadership statement.
-
- I don't think AT is in a position to lead right now, with the PPC amigas and
- the nature of amiga os they will have a slight lead over the very low end
- pentium machines which will have plummeted in price even more so by then.
- Either the amiga is cheap or a luxury item, it seems it can't be both the way
- things have turned out.
-
- In general it seems AT has been following what the users want, either that or
- they have had some incredible cooincidences. :) I like that aspect of AT, you
- definitly don't want leadership from AT there. :)
-
- Regards,
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- BM
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