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- References: <13213799@sourcery.han.de> <4j46cp$19j@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 20:40:16 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Walker case?
- Message-ID: <13213852@sourcery.han.de>
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- In Article <4j46cp$19j@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, Byron Montgomerie <bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- > 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.
- >
- > : 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.
- >
- > Surely they could take workbench from the rom(s) to make room?
-
- It doesn't make *that much* room.
-
- > Do you know what they plan to do with the PPC amiga rom-wise?
-
- It certainly can't get smaller than 512K given how code tends to
- `expand' with the PPC.
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