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- From: peter.larsen@dkb.dk (PETER LARSEN)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Walker, Havanna Ranger!
- Message-ID: <8BEE3F8.1199001717.uuout@dkb.dk>
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 96 16:56:00 +0100
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- Organization: Danish Key Board BBS - Copenhagen Denmark - +45 3325 5600
- Reply-To: peter.larsen@dkb.dk (PETER LARSEN)
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- Hi everybody,
-
- just saw the Walker 'live', it is all things considered not a bad
- design, and while it does look as if it escaped from the set for some
- movie shot in Havanna, then it also appears to be very functional in a
- living room. Had a chat with Michael Hohman from A-T (I think that was
- his name) and he told me:
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- a) no, it doesn't need a MMU because access to ROM is as fast as it is,
- and most people only use the MMU for 'fastrom'ing anyway'.
-
- b) no, you can't see it with anything other than Scala, it is 'pre-
- alpha', and no we can't run AIBB on it, even though it might be
- more interesting for the 'hardliners' to watch than Scala.
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- c: Tower? - yes, but it is *also* a tower, just add mid-sections to
- the height you require.
-
- d: Why the EC, well - most people don't need the MMU anyway, and
- the 40 Mhz 68EC03 has a very nice price, the alternative would
- be to go up to a 50 Hhz MC68030, and the price of that one is
- much less attractive.
-
- But hey, this is just a paraphrasing of what we talked about, so do not
- read this as constituting neither his words, nor 'an interview', it is
- just what I remember from my 15 minute chat with him in german, OK? -
- this does not constitute *a* statement from A-T!
-
-
- Kind regards
-
- Peter Larsen
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- cc: ALL in 1109 on DKBBBS
- ALL in 1527 on DKBBBS
- ALL in 1052 on DKBBBS
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