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From: dwallach@riki.berkeley.edu (Dan Wallach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: New Amiga questions: 2630 vs. GVP/Multisyncs
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Date: 19 Mar 90 00:18:35 GMT
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I'm about to buy an Amiga, while the educational discounts remain.
I believe I want to buy in components, while I can - I don't need
the AT Bridgeboard and end up saving $600 or so.  The question:
I know I want a monitor that will work with ECS, but it has to
work with the existing hardware.  The Sony's seem very nice, but I know
very little about hooking them to the Amiga.  Will the 1302/1304 work
with an unmodified Amiga analog-RGB output?

The salesman was extremely vague about the 2630 vs. the GVP board.
He was saying how awesome the 2630 was and how "everbody else is
just playing catch-up" with Commodore's wonderful product.  What's true?
If I get an A2500/30, how much 32-bit memory can I add, and how fast?
Does the 2630 take standard SIMM's?  Does a GVP 030 board run faster
than a 2630 board?  How easy will it be to put a faster 68030 on-
board, when they become more cheaply available?

In summary, what's the nicest, most elegant way for me to have a 68030/68882
Amiga with lots of memory, and compatibility with 1.4 and other future stuff?

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