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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker case?
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 19:04:57 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- Olaf Barthel (olsen@sourcery.han.de) wrote:
- : > Yep, standard keyboard electronics, real io ports, abilty to use 'PC cases'
- : > -Hmmm does that mean mid tower? What about the vertical expansion boards?-,
- : > all that would be left is a serial mouse port and the ability to use internal
- : > modems. Well, that and a slew of third party boards enabling PPC, scsi, and
- : > PCI svga cards. Going to 1 Meg roms seems silly to me, it would be much
- : > better to put more on the hard drive.
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- : 1 Meg ROMs may be inevitable if the machine is going to boot from
- : CD-ROM. The current ROM is already creaking like a wooden hut in a gale,
- : that little space it left. The CD-ROM filing system has to fit
- : in there. You can't put everything onto hard disk drive.
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- Surely they could take workbench from the rom(s) to make room? Do you know
- what they plan to do with the PPC amiga rom-wise?
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- Regards,
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- BM
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