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From: lcline@agora.rain.com (Larry Cline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: An open letter to C=
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.222722.17507@agora.rain.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 22:27:22 GMT
References: <91070.000848DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991Mar11.061707.3428@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <91070.123408DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
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In article <91070.123408DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>In article <1991Mar11.061707.3428@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>,
>es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) says:
>
>>In article <91070.000848DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>>In article <1991Mar11.042149.17599@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>,
>>>es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) says:
>>>
>>        As I understand it, it is Commodore's policy not to allow
>>1MB of chip ram in an A500. It is a marketing decision. Although
>>        Perhaps this was done so as to give people a reason to
>>buy the 2000 instead of the 500. I don't know.
>
>Perhaps it just gives people a reason to hate Commodore marketing even
>more (like we didn't already!)
>
>-- Dan Babcock

It was my understanding that some of the revsions of the A500 motherboard
may not accept 1MB chip mem.  So it would not be a marketing decision,
but an engineering problem.  So until C='s official scapegoat..... err, 
solution/announcement, maybe we best lay off everybody about this one (
except for the person who is suppose to make the decision about the
announcement).


-- 
Larry Cline
lcline@agora.rain.com