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- From: scm@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun C. Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: walker case extrapolation
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 17:02:42 GMT
- Organization: Micro Focus, Newbury UK
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- In article <4k8gj9$tuh@kaon.kuai.se>, flex@kuai.se says...
- >
- >Remember that the A1200 had a 14MHz EC020. The 40MHz EC030 is a major
- >upgrade since the machine is still low-end. Don't forget EIDE, Super-IO
- >and EPP as an upgrade to.. HiDensity diskdrive, 3.5" HD and CD-ROM.
-
- Also, according to AR 4.05 the ram is accessed at 40Mhz too. Quite a step up
- in RAM performance though the AGA chips are still at their old speed.
-
- >The Walker is no "shitty" computer. It's what we have been waiting for
- >for more than a year now. OK, it still has AGA, but thats no bigger
- >deal. The possibility to add a gfx-card is there. And to get a Diamond
- >Stealth 4MB V-RAM is not so hard. You can buy them evrywhere.
- >(Only thing needed is a driver for it.)
-
- And we need a PCI daughter card to plug into the central slot in the walker.
- I'm not sure if AT are planning to produce this or leave it up to third
- parties. I hope they do produce a PCI daughter card. Surely Dave Haynie could
- knock one up in his sleep ;-)
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- Shaun C. Murray | e-mail: scm@mfltd.co.uk
- Micro Focus Ltd, Newbury, UK. | www: http://www.mfltd.co.uk/~scm/
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