Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!pawl!kudla From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Better Graphics Message-ID: <#WQS6%@rpi.edu> Date: 15 Jan 90 19:14:49 GMT References: <1010@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <25b165c8:3887.2comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 34 In <25b165c8:3887.2comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP> tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) writes: (quoting me) >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 -> So lets not support a product that will work so that we can keep -> the 500 in it's place? I hate to open this can of worms but your -> evaluation is wrong. With the exception of the video slot and -> bridge slots, there is no car that will run on a 200 that COULDNT -> be build to run on a 500. The connector on the side has ALL the -> signale the 2000 slots have. This is true. But I have a 500 and I'm certainly always happy to see new expansion stuff for it. I don't recall (and don't see anywhere in the passage you quoted) where I said that we shouldn't support this box. I was replying only to Larry's assertion that building stuff specifically for the machine that's made to be expanded (the 2000) is wrong. Sorry, but Commodore's said that the only machine they'd specifically be supporting completely in the future is the 2000. You can expand your 500 or 1000 with cardcages and all that, but you don't have any inherent reason to complain when the new snazzy PGA's and hardcards and such don't come out with full 500/1000 compatibility. Sometimes they do, like the new Trumpcard, but there's no reason to expect them to. -- Robert Jude Kudla "Famous? I'm not famous. People come up to me after a show and say 'Hey, Steve!'" -Jon Anderson