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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 07:06:12 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
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- Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
- : AT needs to move Amigas away from floppy drives. It would be best for
- : them to make the floppy an optional add on. Zips would be a good
- : replacement but the media cost is to high for developers to distribute
-
- The 25MB disk is close enough that it wouldn't make a difference.
-
- : software on. CDROMs are much better. Amigas of the future should make
- : backup device an optional add on. This would also force software
-
- It's not just a backup device.
-
- : companies to distribute on CD only. The CDROM should be bootable so you
-
- That will effectively force all the little guys out. Have you priced out
- the inital cost of CD-ROM production? Companies are starting to jack up
- costs because they can't reuse CD-ROMs and they want to cover themselves
- if they don't sell as many as they run.
-
- : could install the OS from it.
-
- : Note to any one from AT that's reading this, if you make CDs bootable,
- : please just have it look to see if the startup-sequence exists instead
- : of the way the CD32 does it.
-
- Then they couldn't enforce a licensing fee (which is the point).
-
- : have that PCMCIA card hanging off the side. The end user would more
- : likely to buy a SCSI device if SCSI was included on the machine.
-
- And AT (and thrid parties) could advertise options on the Amiga as being
- cheaper - no interface required. Right now A1200 drives are expensive in
- part because they DO require PCMCIA cards (or hacks)
-