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From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000
Message-ID: <6914@gollum.twg.com>
Date: 28 May 90 00:31:45 GMT
References: <885@richsun.UUCP> <20021@grebyn.com> <1801@corpane.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
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Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <1801@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>>The A2000 has 5 Zorro II slots; the A3000 has 4 Zorro III slots.
>>Therefore the A2000 can hold more cards.
...
>So if you think you will be using IBM compatibility a lot, you might be 
>better off with a 2000. Or buying a separate IBM machine altogether.

A thought..

The backplane is a card which plugs into the motherboard, correct?

Wouldn't it be almost trivial to design a taller box and taller
backplane card?  Therefore one could have more slots with a small
amount of effort on somebody's part.

Pretty ingenious, if true.

	David

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