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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Agnus - what is it called?
Message-ID: <1974@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 90 03:05:57 GMT
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From article <20298@estelle.udel.EDU>, by new@udel.EDU (Darren New):
> In article <1990May23.163153.9494@cbnewsl.att.com> saify@cbnewsl.att.com (saify.lanewala) writes:
>>The 3000 Agnes is called the "UTTERLY OBESE AGNES"
> 
> And I suppose next year we will see the "great quiverring mounds of 
> flesh agnes" or the "beached whale rotting in the sun agnes"?   --Darren

But which is larger, the "mounds of flesh" or "beached whale" Agnus, and
can I retrofit them into my A1000?

And why didn't CBM use velcro instead of that non-standard(*) PLCC socket
on the morbidly obese Agnus so that it could easily be changed (on a
daily basis so I can run my defective software)?


Personally I prefer to call them the 512K, 1M and 2M Agnus to try and
avoid the confusion. (Though Fat, Fatter, Rotund, Obese, Grotesque, and
Beached Whale seem to be considered the official technical terms by
certain magazines.) Amiga World has adopted "Super" as its Agnus
designation, does this mean we can look forward to Super Fat, Super
Obese, and Super Fat Obese Agnuses? Sounds like geriatric super heros to me.


(*) Non-Standard: Defined as "I've never seen one used in a C-64 or
Apple II, even though they are used by the thousands in workstations."


	I refuse to attach a smiley to anything this absurd.


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