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- Path: coranto.ucs.mun.ca!gnoel
- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 02:42:50 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4cv93a$ujo@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960108.77A4120.F5EA@obscurity.pd.mcs.net>
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- Summary: Look who you're talking about!
- Keywords: Something new!
-
- In article <19960108.77A4120.F5EA@obscurity.pd.mcs.net>,
- Eric Szulczewski <ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> wrote:
- >
- >In a message dated 01-04-96 23-27 William F. Maddock writes:
- >
- >
- >WM> I think releasing a replacement for the A1200 using AGA technology would
- >WM> not be a mistake as long as it's the machine I've been hearing about that
- >WM> would have *user*-*accessible* SIMMs on the motherboard for memory
- >WM> expansion.
- >
- >I think that the reengineering of the 1200 has to go beyond just
- >putting SIMM slots on the motherboard in order to make it saleable.
- >But you're right in one thing, Bill; an AGA machine to replace the 1200
- >would keep software base availability there for that machine.
- >
- >low-cost computer is one thing; a low-cost, old, underpowered machine
- >is another. If the 1300 comes out as we've heard through the rumor
- >mill, it's going to be the 600 all over again.
-
- Its not the A600 all over again.. look who we are talking about.. these
- guys at AT have some brains in their head and have some sense for
- marketing a particle machine/technology that they own!
-
- You can bet that either the A1200+ will have a complete new chipset
- giving better resolutions and better graphics (SVGA chipset with AGA
- built in and an extra chip giving Amiga qualities to the SVGA chipset if
- not built in also) or a reworked motherboard with new processor, SIMM
- sockets and a built in CD-ROM drive with faster AGA chips (CMOS) thus
- faster graphics. This will improve the quality of software to the point
- where it will seem like a new chipset anyways as people will be doing
- more with the hardware that they wouldn't be tak1ing the chance to do
- with it before. THE LEAST the A1200+ will be is reworked motherboard,
- new processor, SIMM sockets and NEW Paula chip supporting HD drives and
- 16 BIT audio with possibility of built in HD drive instead of DD. In
- this short amount of time, they should at least have ONE new chip built!
-
- If any of these improvements are in there, it will be worth it and worth
- upgrading to.
-
- -=*George*=-
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