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- From: ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: No AGA for current users!?! *Excuse Me?*
- Message-ID: <AHANSFOR.92Sep13172548@wpi.wpi.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 21:25:48 GMT
- References: <1992Sep13.195348.25807@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
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- In-reply-to: bdnee@silver.lcs.mit.edu's message of 13 Sep 92 19:53:48 GMT
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- >>>>> On 13 Sep 92 19:53:48 GMT, bdnee@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Bandes Dessinee) said:
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- bdnee> Time to stop buying Commodore products, i think, unless they
- get their act together and start treating their userbase decently.
- bdnee> Charley
-
- Well if there are technical reasons that it won't work then it won't
- work. I do not blame C= for coming out with new technology that
- makes the amigas they made last year a little dull. What I would like
- to know is could not have such a move been anticipated and allowances
- made to upgrade 3000s? Maybe not.
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- Perhaps a low end model will come with AGA on a motherboard that fits
- in a 3000 case. Probably not.
-
- If C= moves to a more modular design and standardize on a motherboard
- form factor, then perhaps motherboard upgrades will be possible.
- Already we have the SCSI, and CPU moved off the mother board. So lets
- hope that the 4000 and some tower version will be standardized so that
- when the 4200 or 5000 comes along we can pop out the 4000 motherboard, and
- put in the 5000 motherboard with the AAA chipset, and still keep our
- same SCSI-2 card, our 060 CPU card and our AT&T DSP Card.
-
- Modularity adds to production and sales cost but certainly makes
- upgrading easier. (I'd much rather pay $600 for a new motherboard
- that only has the custom ships, the port controls and the bus
- controller. )
-
- I do understand the feeling of the 3000 owners. The 500, and 2000
- owners had a way to expand to 3000 capabilities (Although this was
- not cheap if you wanted all of the 3000 options sans Zorro3.)
- The 3000 owners seem not to have these abilities. C= would do well to
- give the 3000 owners a good deal.
-
- Andrew
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