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From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Systems Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 Rumor - InfoWorld
Message-ID: <4477@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 90 02:27:54 GMT
References: <28899@dhw68k.cts.com> <1291@corpane.UUCP> <480ec12c.19ac2@wasp.engin.umich.edu>
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In article <480ec12c.19ac2@wasp.engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.UUCP (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>In article <1291@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>machine, unless it is an 040 machine.  32 bit slots?   I doubt it.  The only
>real use for 32 bit slots is for memory. Can you imagine a 32 bit multifunction
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	I don't know anything about the '3000, but it seems to me that there
	are a bunch of interesting applications that can use 32 bit access
	to memory eg graphics cards, network boards (FDDI anyone?), disk
	controllers (sync SCSI is 4 mB/sec, IPI even faster), etc.  You
	need to be a little forward thinking here.  Remember it takes Commodore
	a fair amount of time to grind out a new machine, and therefore any
	new machine should stretch their current technology to the limits just
	to ride through the next development cycle.  Current generation Macs
	and PCs both have 32 bit slots so I hope we see same on the next
	Amiga.  

>Ralph Seguin               |  In order to get infinitely many monkeys to type

					Rick Spanbauer
					State U of NY/Stony Brook