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From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Better Graphics
Message-ID: <3VQ_3%@rpi.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 90 19:05:31 GMT
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In <1017@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:

(quoting me)
>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.

Of course there is. There's a much greater installed userbase of
500/1000/2000 owners than there is of 500's alone. I wasn't saying
there shouldn't be such neat toys for the 500... I was saying that 500
owners really don't have a right to complain when it's not supported
for expansion stuff.

-- 
Robert Jude Kudla  <kudla@pawl.rpi.edu>

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