Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!gargoyle!igloo!ddsw1!corpane!sparks
From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Agnus - what is it called?
Message-ID: <1874@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 90 13:20:58 GMT
References: <20298@estelle.udel.EDU> <1974@esunix.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
Lines: 19

blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes:


>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)?

No, no. What CBM should do is put all the custom chips into a cartridge
and put cartridge slots on Amiga's. Yea, that's the ticket! Then we can
just upgrade by buying a new cartridge every couple o' years! heheh.
And be backwards compatible by jest (pun intended) plugging in an old
cartridge.



-- 
John Sparks  | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 2400bps. Accessable via Starlink (Louisville KY)
sparks@corpane.UUCP |                                     | PH: (502) 968-DISK
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. - Ogden Nash