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From: urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore gets serious?  You judge.
Summary: Yeah sure!
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.021855.2789@uncecs.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 90 02:18:55 GMT
References: <29164@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <6891@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> <14251@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <14251@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
> 
> After getting involved in a thread awhile back in comp.arch, about whether
> or not it's really important to belive the published power and timing 
> specifications on chips, I would be a little more nervous about buying a
> cheap clone than I was a month or two ago.  Where I come from, you design
> for simultaneous worst case, period.  I'm reasonably sure that the folks at
> Apple, IBM, Compaq, and a few other "reputable" companies feel the same
> way.  I'm equally certain, at this point, that lots of other folks feel you
> can usually get away with stretching your design rules.  Things like this,
> along with the usual "because they can get it" or "because they advertise
> alot", are likely reasons a Compaq clone costs more than a Taiwan Special of
> similar configuration.
> 
Dave would you please then tell all of us why the A1000 has such
great difficulties with its bus and expansions? Why the problems
aand fixes to terminate the bus and ground some of the chips?
What about the fact that the bus is (not buffered?)
Is this because you were not involved then?
I also seem to remember there were some problems on the 2000
(with memory?)
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