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- From: h_hucke@bdb.escape.de (Henning Hucke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re^2: Questions about new computers/futu
- Message-ID: <1C3D6CB3TA@bdb.escape.de>
- Organization: BDB * The private Z-NETZ-BBS in Braunschweig (Germany)
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:39:00 +0100
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- chucks%pnet51.orb.mn.org@UUBDB.ZER wrote on 02-Jan-93 in <2ly_nePxBv@UUBDB>
- with Subject:Re: Questions about new computers/future chipsets
-
- cp> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- cp> >In article <1992Dec29.165251.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> traynor@fnalo.fnal.gov writes:
- cp> >>Hi--
- cp> >>
- cp> >>Has C= mentioned whether the new machines (A4000, A1200, etc) will
- cp> >>be able to handle either their low-end or high-end chipsets when they
- cp> >>are released in 1994?
- cp> >
- cp> > No. The chipsets in the A4000 and A1200 are surface-mounted. They
- cp> >cannot be replaced.
- cp>
- cp> Marc, you didn't answer the question, you just spewed a half-truth. C= has
- cp> NOT said that the 1200/4000 will not support the new chipsets. And just
- cp> because the chips are surface mounted, doesn't mean that the 1200/4000
- cp> won't be able to support them. Ever heard of RTG?
-
- Dream on!!!!!!
-
- This would be the same problem like with todays Amiga3000-computers which
- can't run the AA-Chips because one would have to build nearly the whole
- computer on the AA-Zorro-Board because of the Chip-Bus.
-
- The only somehow practical method would be a motherboard-exchange. And I
- don't think that Commo is willing to to that (at least here in germany)!
-
- Henning
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