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- From: dvaz@dvtown.UUCP (David Vazquez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AAchip for 3000(was Re: Offic. new C= Announcements!)
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <dvaz.030n@dvtown.UUCP>
- References: <Mike_Noreen.07hp%cave@sweden.eu.net> <1992Aug25.205111.1196@pro-freedom.cts.com> <1992Aug27.233643.21140@microsoft.com>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 17:07:31 CST
- Organization: Not an Organization
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- In article <1992Aug27.233643.21140@microsoft.com> iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug25.205111.1196@pro-freedom.cts.com> eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:
- >>
- >> > IF there is no chip-level upgrade for the A3000 and IF there is no
- >> > machine-level upgrade (A3000 -> A4000 and CHEAP!) I can say one thing
- >> > for sure: I'll sell my A3000 and get me a 486 instead.
- >
- >Ditto for me. When C= had the power up program last summer it was a deal
- >I could not refuse. But I was broke. I sold my A500 and hard disk for
- >$1000.00US, got a loan for $2000 from my credit union and bought an
- >A3000/25 with multiscan monitor. Added 4 megs or ram and another 80MB
- >hard disk.
- >
-
- Same for me. I just finished paying off my A3000/25. The last thing I need
- is to have to go off and buy a new machine just the get the better graphics.
-
- One thing I would like to see C= do is use the PC approach of putting a ma-
- chine together. A card for the disk controllers, one for the video, one
- for serial and parallel, etc. This is done with accelerator cards so why
- not with the video (AA chipset) too? Whenever new graphics technology is
- available and implemented, you could just replace your old graphics card
- with a new one (ala CGA to EGA to VGA).
-
- What implications would this have if implemented using the Zoro II or III
- expansion slots?
-
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