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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!gerald
- From: gerald@seas.gwu.edu (Gerald G. Washington)
- Subject: Re: A600 PCMCIA & FASTMEM ??
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.232947.3825@seas.gwu.edu>
- Sender: news@seas.gwu.edu
- Organization: George Washington University
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:29:47 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven) writes:
- >heuvdp@cbmnl.nl.so.commodore.com (Paul Heu vd Netherlands) writes:
- >>A large number of cards is available ranging from
- >>RAM/ROM/FLASHROM to SCSI adaptors, LAN adaptors, modems
- >>and so on..
- >
- >It's nice having access (theorectically) to all theses wonderful toys,
- >but what about the software needed to drive them???
- >
- >The Amiga has a standard parallel port right? Why aren't there all
- >those people using those 'Xircom' (sp?) ethernet adapters that plug into
- >the parallel port? The answer is no software to drive them that's why!
-
- Yes, that is the problem. With the proper software the Amiga could use
- VGA/SVGA boards, etc. Such cards have been available forever (pratically),
- yet the only way I know of to access them is with a Bridgeboard.
-
- -- Gerald
-