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- From: mikes@interport.net (Mike Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 01:28:48 GMT
- Organization: Interport Communications Corp.
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- >I don't know who brought up this idea of "slices". Please take into
- >consideration that this is a many-MHz-processor-bus, where every
- >connector adds reflections to the signal lines and makes them worse.
- >So the two connectors (first on the motherboard, second on the
- >daughterboard) are already more than enough. You won't dare to torture
- >such signals through a daisy chain of a dozen connectors.
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- >People obviously compare this to HiFi systems where such stacked designs
- >exist, at frequencies of a factor 1,000 less (tens of Kilohertz vs.
- >tens of Megahertz)... No way with processors.
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- So is it one section that you can add for boards? How tall? I think the
- look of the new machine is PHENOMENAL!! Brilliant idea to make it so
- different and controversial- I've heard it compared to more than a dozen
- different things- my latest favorite is it looks like a crab!
- The picture that was released at the AT site (the best pic so far)
- made it look like the front is not flat, but swoops slightly forward as
- it goes from top to bottom (I'm a design freak,can you tell?!) I hope
- this is correct and not a trick of the light in the photo, because it
- makes walker look even MORE organic. (I'd REALLY like to know this info if
- it's not too much trouble- I have to have fuel for obsession!)
- Now a very important question!!- If I buy an '060 board (probabably a Cyberstorm II)
- for my Amiga 3000 Tower, will I eventually be able to transfer it to the Walker??
- I also have a Picasso, Emplant, Toaster4000, Sunrize 1012, GVP I/O extender, and
- a Kitchen Sync. I have 2 other Amiga 3000s in the wings- I want the Walker because it's new
- Amiga, I like AGA for Toaster anims.etc. Thanks in advance...LONG LIVE THE AMIGA
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- Mike
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- Mike Smith mikes@interport.net
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