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- From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel)
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Reply-To: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
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- Date: 22 Mar 96 00:41:04 MEZ
- Organization: Private Site
-
- [Impressing list of newsgroups, but why is .hardware not included? Funny.]
-
- In article <4i0psa$4vc@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel) writes:
- >In article <peterk.0lkl@combo.ganesha.com>,
- >Dr. Peter Kittel <peterk@combo.ganesha.com> wrote:
- >>In article <4hig4c$bka@due.unit.no> kolla@nvg.unit.no (Kolbjxrn Barmen) writes:
- >>>Neil Scott Nadelman (docsane@user1.channel1.com) wrote:
- >
- >>>> An EC030/40? Well, it IS better than a EC020/14, but still...
- >>>
- >>>Where did they dig up those? As far as I've seen the last year, there are no
- >>>such thing as a EC030 anymore.. even the cheapest boards for the A1200 have
- >>>full blown 030 on them.
- >>
- >>Point is, in this casing, the full 030 comes with maximum 33 MHz (it
- >>has the additional FPU which generates heat), while the EC030 is available
- >
- >Did you mean "in this case" or were you actually referring to the casing
- >of the new slot box Amiga?
-
- No, I'm speaking about the processor's casing, PLCC vs. PGA. And I
- mixed up FPU with MMU, sorry.
-
- > WILL it be an all in one box or will you
- >still have to "add" a tower case to it to get the number of slots you
- >want
-
- The box casing is two part, upper and lower, and you can insert a
- middle part. On the mainboard, there is an expansion connector which
- can take a daughter board or riser card which carries standard slots
- like Zorro, PCI, Amiga Video or the like. The more slots you put on
- this daughter board, the higher the middle part will be. Thus it's
- an extremely flexible design.
-
- > seeing as how it was mentioned in the press release that it would be
- >up to the user how many slots they want due to the "modularity" of the
- >design. The press release still pretty much described the current A1200
- >case
-
- Huh? Not at all.
-
- > and ports with the possibility of adding on/adding to a 3rd party
- >tower case. Will we see a built in keyboard or an external one?
-
- External.
-
- >Seeing as how a CD-ROM will be coming with it, wouldn't a modification to
- >the CD-32 case and motherboard design have been much better then trying
- >to redesign the A1200 motherboard as originally was stated for the
- >A1200+?
-
- No. The Walker is far extended from the A1200, while the CD32 was a
- downstripped A1200. And the CD-ROM controller in the CD32 was unique,
- while the Walker uses standard IDE for CD-ROM.
-
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