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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Better Graphics
Message-ID: <1017@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 13 Jan 90 14:17:55 GMT
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In <K6P$0=@rpi.edu>, kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes:
>In <1010@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>
>-> Right. Ignore the A500 (and the A1000). Why not?  To hell with them. If they
>-> wanted an Amiga, they should have bought the 2000. Right.
>
>No. If they wanted to *expand* the box, they should have bought a
>2000. I knew exactly what I was getting when I bought my 500,
>including knowing full well that when I decided to get a new
>processor, hard card, huge amounts of RAM or higher-res video I'd have
>to upgrade to a 2000 or hope for a card cage compatible enough to suit
>me. The 500 is marketed as an entry-level machine, not merely a
>one-piece 2000!

And now you are disappointed because you don't have to buy a 2000 to get the
benefit of the Black Belt box? :-)

It's interesting that you think it's A Bad Thing.  You might try talking them
(or someone else) into doing a product that will work on the 2000 only.  Just
pointing out that there _is_ a sound rationale for the way Bleack Belt did
theirs.

-larry

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