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- From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Byte A4000/A3000T-040 Review
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- References: <1hjpouINN43b@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Dec28.004411.11737@serval.net.wsu.edu> <BzyrAo.FEp@NeoSoft.com> <1992Dec29.205344.601716@sue.cc.uregina.ca>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 09:13:01 CST
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- In article <1992Dec29.205344.601716@sue.cc.uregina.ca> plummer@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Dave Plummer) writes:
- >Know what I think will save the Amiga? Bridgeboards that cost the same as
- >entire PC motherboards. If I could buy a 386-40 Mhz bridgeboard, AND use
- >a VGA card, and share my Amiga peripherals, I'd already have one. Since
- >I could buy that motherboard for $225, and a Seagate ST01 SCSI controller
- >for $28.95, that's what I did. I have to switch monitor cables to go
- >back and forth between machines, of course, but it was cheaper than a
- >bridgeboard.
-
- The AGA class machines shouldn't need a VGA card, since they already support
- VGA quality displays. I don't think a small premium for the bridgeboard
- over a x86 motherboard is unreasonable. Remember, you're looking at the
- low range of motherboard prices, and the bridgeboard prices are probably
- still within the upper range of motherboard prices.
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- bruce@zuhause.mn.org
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