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From: mitchell@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Mitchell - QA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Amiga and ST Reliability
Message-ID: <7815@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Sep 89 06:09:07 GMT
References: <65.24F67146@metnet.FIDONET.ORG> <16147@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1647@pkmab.se>
Reply-To: mitchell@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Mitchell - QA)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1647@pkmab.se> daniel@pkmab.se (Daniel Deimert) writes:
>In article <16147@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
> kgschlueter@violet.waterloo.edu (Kevin Schlueter) writes:
>>
>>Well, the nice thing about the Amiga is that you can easily add things like
>>extra memory, faster CPUS, floating point coprocessors, and large monochrome
>>(1000x800) monitors.
>
>And that shouldn't be possible on the ST?
>Extra memory? Why not buy it at once, as with the 1040ST (1Mb) or the Mega ST?
>(2 or 4 Mb)

That's all? My Amiga is up at 7MEGs!

>Faster CPUs exists to, there was some articles posted about this for a
>month ago I think.
>Floating point coprocessors isn't a problem either. Large screens is very
>avaiable to. (for the A3 in 1:1 or something like that, with a resolution
>of 1024*768 or even more, I don't know exactly. They are to expensive for
>me.. :-)

And can you have 32-bit memory as well? Can you make the machine choose
the 32-bit ram for allocation FIRST? Also, can you make the co-processor
transparent, so that properly-written software can use it if there, and
not die if not?

>Aeeghh... I'm sick'n'tired of this 'argumenting'.

So why did you bother to reply?

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Have a nice day! :-)
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