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- From: Philip Chung <ee95pyc@brunel.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 16:31:23 +0000
- Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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- Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
-
- > If it's a pizza box style Amiga I'll be pleasantly surprised. However, if
- > it's a variation on the "all-in-one" case of the A500 and A1200, I'll be
- > disappointed. Why? Even if it *does* have a Z3 slot, adding an expansion
- > chassis to an all-in-one machine is inconvenient and/or ugly. Also, any
- > word on what type of expansion it's going to have? Z3? Z2? some other bus?
- > What about a processor slot, as a 40 mHz 030 is pitifully slow for today's
- > computer market.
-
- From what I gather, the box will be an expandable boxe, where extra height can be
- added slice by slice. The slot will probably be a CPU slot with which Zorro slots
- can be added to
-
- > And how about HD floppies, faster graphics, better sound? Same ol' slow,
- > crappy AGA - unless the press released missed something *big*.
-
- I think HD floppies would be using a PC disk controller, so it may be incompatible
- with existing Amiga HD floppies, but will operate at a higher speed - a bit like
- when Apple switched their Macs from 800K disks to HD disks
-
- > The announcement of this new Amiga sounds a lot like the release of the
- > A1200 from C=, only with *less* enhancement than there was from the A500 to
- > the A1200. Hopefully AT will surprise us...
-
- There's not that much point in developing a new 680x0 based Amiga at when a totally
- new architecture is due for release in '97. Their time is better spent developing
- the PPC Amiga. I see this Amiga as a stop gap - but hopefully, the OS will have
- been updated so that things like RTG is standard.
-
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- __/\_\__ Philip Chung
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