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- From: fheitka@ibm.net (Fred Heitkamp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 13:23:11 GMT
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- Paul Boos <pboos@sysplan.com> wrote:
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- >Dr. Peter Kittel wrote:
- >> [...stuff omitted...]
- >>
- >> 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.
- >> I guess I would like to voice my desire for SCSI (SCSI-2 actually) to be
- >the standard on all of these future systems... It just simply performs
- >better and has greater flexibility such as the ability to coonect a
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- We all like SCSI however, the IDE/ATAPI CD ROM are much much cheaper.
- I hear they hog all the CPU cycles they can get though. But any new
- Amiga with SCSI and CDROM would have to be hundreds more than a IDE
- version, I'd bet.
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- >scanner. Also, did I here right? It comes with MIDI? Hallelujah! NOw
- >if only Blue Ribbon were still around... (Microsoft got scared so that
- >bought 'em to keep them from having the Amiga pick up all the Atari users
- >that can't find what they want on a PC and don't want to pay the high
- >prices of the Mac.)
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- Sure. That's a great theory!
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- Fred Heitkamp
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