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- From: dnavas@oracle.uucp (David Navas)
- Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.194142.12788@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:41:42 GMT
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- In article <69077@cup.portal.com> joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
- >of removable media. After 7 years of existance, there most definately
- >should be an increase in the Amiga's floppies - though even this sad remedy
- >is only halve of an increase (speed hasn't changed, only capacity).
- [...]
- >Yes. Why won't you listen? When will CBM try to improve across the board
-
- Hey, Joel!
- Breathe in.
- Breathe out.
- Count to ten -- now backwards :)
-
- The decision not to support what you (rightly) term a "sad remedy" at
- additional cost to the end user is not a big loss. Especially if the machine
- is NEVER sold without a HD. Which is how I'd market it....
-
- The decision not to include a three dollar clock, on the other hand, was not
- exactly the most brilliant tradeoff I've seen....
-
- As you point out, Cmdre needs to stop supporting bad hacks (IDE, half-speed
- HD floppies, CPU-boards in the 68000 socket), and start putting
- together modular systems -- plug in sound, gfx, CPUs that all work in
- a well-integrated (read, you don't have to set a bazillion switches and
- add fourteen hundred ad-hoc drivers) environment.
-
- For this and other reasons, I support the PCMCIA effort by Cmdre (even over
- the HD floppy, which is a definite loss, or a DSP chip, or whatever). Not
- because it, in and of itself, will become a widespread standard (it may),
- but because working with this allows Cmdre to become a part of a larger market
- in a way that proprietary HD disks do not let them....
- You may remember when the Lynx got sold to Atari I was flaming Cmdre for
- passing on the opportunity -- again, not because the color LCD display
- might have meant a portble Amiga (not enough resolution), but because it
- would have gotten their hands down and dirty with "useful" things.
-
- Half-speed HD drives are, at best, a hack that will hopefully go away
- VERY soon when Cmdre redesigns its machines with a better "Paula."
- It does, however, make a difference to buyers between now and then....
-
- >instead of defending the placement of ancient (in computer terms) technology
- >into otherwise new and fairly impressive machines?
-
- Hey man, console -- not state of the art.
- David C. Navas dnavas@oracle.com
- Working for, but not speaking on behalf of, Oracle Corp.
-