Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!sega0!mykes From: mykes@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore! Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 91 03:52:56 GMT References: <19996@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Mar20.223535.248@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <873@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 30 In article <873@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes: >IMHO, I could see an intermediate model, between the A500, and the A2000. >The A500 is packaged correctly, as a low-end machine, although, tweaking >the board design for 1M CHIP standard + 1M CHIP/FAST optional would be nice. >The A2000 (or my A2500/30) is a little clunky, but the plethora of slots >and drive bays is REALLY nice. I'm down to having only a single XT/AT slot >free, and it will be filled, when I decide which of several options to put >into it. I think the A1500 (for want of a better name) should be the size >of my A1000, complete with "keyboard garage". I should have the ability to >install 2Mbyte CHIP, have the clock, an A3000-compatible SCSI interface >(I know 16-bit instead of 32, but the same registers, etc.), and 2 sideways >(like some of the PC clones) slots, 1 video, 1 ZorroII. They could even be >built into old A1000 cases, since an SCSI drive will fit nicely where the >KickStart RAM is. If you put the 68000 in exactly the same location as >the A1000, even some of the RAM expansion, etc. would be usable. I don't >know if the people "down under" have exactly this on their replacement MB. > >Dan Taylor >/* comments here have NOTHING to do with NCR */ No matter how CBM repackages the Amiga, software will still have to be written to run on a 512K machine because of all the machines that have been sold to date. What CBM might consider is a ridiculously low 1Meg upgrage policy on the Amiga 500 so developers could expect this much out of the vast majority of machines instead of a few. -- ******************************************************* * Assembler Language separates the men from the boys. * *******************************************************