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- From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 4000 Paula
- Summary: Will be changed
- Message-ID: <3122@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 06:57:12 GMT
- References: <1992Sep12.132520.7820@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Sep12.162639.1888@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <65745@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <65745@cup.portal.com> Aurelius@cup.portal.com (Mark Christian Barnes) writes:
- >joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
- > Does this mean that the same old Paula chip is used? That would mean
- >that floppy disks are still limited to 880k full speed drives. We still
- >will not be able to read standard HD (1.44M) floppies! ;-{
-
- The A4000 comes with a dual-speed drive.
- It is able to read standard HD (1.44M) floppies.
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- Considering that the other two NMOS chips (Agnus and Denise) have been
- replaced with newer technology (high speed CMOS), you can expect that
- a replacement for the NMOS Paula is not far off.
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