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- From: Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: AT Walker Project
- Date: 21 Mar 96 13:57:59 GMT
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- Salutations Jolyon for on the 20 Mar 96, verilly did you scribe;
-
- JR> Since when have you been able to use the words 'Ethernet' and 'Cheap' in
- JR> the same sentence when talking about Amiga's (except with the word
- JR> 'ain't' inbetween). Amiga owners are expected to spend #200 on an
- JR> ethernet card that would cost me #20 for my PC.
-
- OK, cheaper was what I meant. 200 quid is cheap for Amiga Ethernet. :-(
-
- >> Anyway seems to me everyone's loosing site of the fact that this
- >> machine is a low end machine.
-
- JR> The price is high-end, the specs are (relatively) high end. I'd say it
- JR> was a mid-range to lower high-end machine myself.... As I've said
- JR> before, the Amiga low-end market is dead.
-
- Price isn't high-end. It's about entry compared to a PC. The specs
- definately aren't high end. Lack of SCSI, dire CPU and that God awful AGA
- chip-set. :-(
-
- I agree about the low-end market being dead. I call what WAS the mid-range
- market 'low-end' now just as the rest of the market does including AT.
- That's the way it is with computing in general. No CD, HD and decent memory
- and it's just a waste of time unless it's a console.
-
- >> probably just buy the generic PPC '97 box. I saw some darn nice PPC
- >> motherboards at CeBIT.
-
- JR> Perhaps I will. But I'm half interested in buying a 'dung beetle' for
- JR> home (i don't actually have an Amiga at home any more :-( ), but not if
- JR> I can't link it up to the PC and transfer stuff at a half-decent rate
- JR> (ie not EPP parallel!!)
-
- Mmm. Depends how much stuff you have the shovel. I could live with 150K/s+
- transfer for day to day use and we shovel quite a bit between machine to
- machine. Prefer Ethernet of course but ... without even a viable A1200
- Ethernet card that doesn't waste your machine regularly or function at ALL
- with a Blizzard 1260 it'll remain a pipe dream until the Tech Ed has a big
- box Amiga too.
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