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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: Project Walker Specs
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 03:02:00 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4it578$fe5@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <0EADA982@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> <4im63m$plo@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4imrlb$7jt@serpens.rhein.de>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Summary: Questions answered
- Keywords: Compatibility
-
- In article <4imrlb$7jt@serpens.rhein.de>,
- Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de> wrote:
- >gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel) writes:
- >
- >>> Billed as 1MB CHIP RAM + 4MB of FAST as standard. Likely to be 2+4.
- >
- >>Nice expansion of memory but they should not even consider 1 meg of chip
- >>ram and stick with the 2 MEG of chipram. What are they going back to the
- >>A1000 way of thinking, some chipram coming standard and having to expand
- >>it later?
- >
- >Some people might buy a graphics card for it and want to safe a few
- >bucks on the chip ram.
-
- The market this computer is aimed for will not be able to afford to buy
- the "Walker" and then quickly buy a graphics card also.. besides, as it
- seems, new cards have to be developed for it first! It is easier to
- provide the 2 MEG chip ram as standard like before and if the people want
- to buy a new graphics card sometime in the future, I doubt the minor
- addition of an extra meg of chipram will set them back any.
-
- >>Didn't the chip "Gary" (or its equivalent) control the serial and modem
- >>etc. ports in the Amiga in the past? If so, what about the software which
- >>accessed it directly?
- >
- >The serial port is controlled by Paula and the CIAs. This port will probably
- >still be there.
-
- What about the modem port?
-
- >--
- > Michael van Elst
- >
- >Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
- > "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
-
- Thanks for the info/clarification.
-
- -=*George*=-
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