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- From: drizzit@PROBLEM_WITH_YOUR_MAIL_GATEWAY_FILE (G. Baldwin)
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
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- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 02:03:56 GMT
-
- Chris Steinle (csteinle@cs.strath.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Talk about missing te point. Everyone keeps going on about how shite the
- : Walker is with only a 68ec030/40, when its not meant as a truly new
- : Amiga, just a stop-gap before AmTech goes PPC. Looking at the specs, it
- : can take both GFX and CPU upgrades - for when the new Amiga's come out,
- : and PPC and newer GFX chips become available. This will sell, especially
- : to A1200 owners who haven't bought an accelerator yet. The extra power
- : is there, and its FAR more upgradeable. For Christ sake, when AmTech do
- : something that everyone has being crying out for, why does everyone
- : slagging them off?
-
- Perhaps its because we have enough vision to see that it will be a flop.
- Some of us aren't little kids rubbing our paws together waiting for the
- next bone with the label "Amiga" to be thrown out to us. Some of us
- actually want to see a real machine because we do real work with them.
-
- : It's not a new machine, but a re-designed A1200 (some people are calling
- : it the Walker 1200!), with the first five upgrades already there - 030
- : instead of 020, 4MB Fast Ram, Quad speed CD-ROM, Hard Drive, and High
- : density floppy. Stop maoning and get behind the Amiga, or bugger off and
- : buy and P100 and run the corporate virus that is Win95.
-
- The "Walker" will be a new machine, designed from the ground up. It has
- nothing to do with an A1200 except that they both share the AGA chipset
- to some degree.
-
-
- : --
- : +--------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- : | Chris Steinle |"..And you shall know my name is the |
- : | a.k.a. Captain Irrelevant|lord, when I bring my vengence upon |
- : | csteinle@cs.strath.ac.uk |thee. Aaaghh. BANG BANG BANG BANG |
- : | |BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG |
- : +--------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- : | A1200/030/50Mhz/85MB HD/2Mb Chip/4MB Fast/Microvitec 1438 |
- : +----------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- Greg Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com)
- Amiga junkie and user since 1987 Computer Science & DTV Student
- Commodore64 fan since about 1983 http://www.eskimo.com/~drizzit
- Tyranical EFNet #Amiga Channel Operator "Drizzit"
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