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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!copes
- From: copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
- Subject: Re: 4000 (A hack?!)
- Message-ID: <copes.716440038@marsh>
- Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <9209132215.AA03484@nettlerash.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 03:07:18 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- RPG104@URIACC.BITNET (Don Mac Phee) writes:
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- > Calling CBM! Hello?
-
- > Why an IDE drive? With the available bandwidth, a Wide-Fast SCSI-2
- >should be a possibility.
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- a) cheaper.
-
- The ide drive is still dma. It should be NEARLY as fast as the A3000 scsi
- controller, and drives will be much cheaper. A scsi controller is optional.
-
- > Will the new 4000 allow a new Paula? And will the devices (Serial/Drive)
-
- A c= employee at the show said the new chipsets would be surface mount. I
- don't know about the A4000, but that would seem to make them unchangeable,
- unless they are on a graphics card and you replace the whole lot at once.
-
- > Will the Ethernet interface support NFS (Both ways),Slip(PPP), and NNTP?
- >Perhaps even Rlogin/RSH?
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- The TCP/IP software is pretty complete.
-
- > Is the processor *IN* the processor slot, or is it mounted like the
- >Tandem (On a replacable card?)?
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- On a card that plugs into the cpu slot, which is the same as the A3000 fast
- slot.
-
- >convenience :) [I think we can all make a few allowances for
- >the 1.2Gig of mail that's pouring down the .commodore.com domain...]
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- That much?
-
- > BTW: I read the csa.hardware feed, but have to post this way
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- >D o n M a c P h e e (Rpg104@Uriacc.Uri.edu)
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