Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rpi!uupsi!grebyn!ckp From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Zorro-III boards comming? Message-ID: <1991Mar13.042354.537@grebyn.com> Date: 13 Mar 91 04:23:54 GMT References: Organization: Grebyn Timesharing Lines: 31 In article andrewsr@u2.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) writes: > >Hello! Hi! >I was thinking about the advent of Zorro-III on the Amiga. I got a >little concerned when I thought that few developers would *not* be >developing Zorro-III boards for fear of a smaller market (ie. they >might rather develop Zorro-II boards which are compatible with more >Amigas). Any thoughts? OK, my thought: Personally, I think any developer who develops a Zorro III board which, by it's nature, does not *specifically* need the higher bandwidth or the larger address space, is nuts. Yes the primary reason is the market size. The number of Amiga board buyers is small enough as it is. To further restrict your market to A3000's is suicide. Or true love. >(Personally, I would like to see boards with Zorro-III which fully >utilize the A3000's 32bit bus.) Sure you would. And you'd love to see 24 bit megapixel graphics cards, multi-DSP cards, fiber-optic network cards, and Lotus 1-2-3. Problem is you wouldn't buy any of them. -- First comes the logo: C H E C K P O I N T T E C H N O L O G I E S / / \\ / / Then, the disclaimer: All expressed opinions are, indeed, opinions. \ / o Now for the witty part: I'm pink, therefore, I'm spam! \/