Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - why hasn't C= made them faster? Message-ID: <20747@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 18 Apr 91 20:56:24 GMT References: <1991Apr2.235710.13984@news.iastate.edu> <41008@cup.portal.com> <1991Apr9.150928.21660@sagpd1> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Distribution: na Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 23 In article <1991Apr9.150928.21660@sagpd1> monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes: >In article <41008@cup.portal.com> Fletcher@cup.portal.com (fletcher sullivan segall) writes: >>You are forgetting the basic history of the Amiga. Commodore didn't > Me thinks you are the one forgetting history! ^ This part is true,but.. >It was CBM who cut back the design (i.e. removed internal expansion) to make >it less expensive to produce. Guess again. The "Zorro" motherboard, the system at Amiga when C= took over, wasn't all that different than the A1000, but what got added was generally good. The Zorro system had a ROM cartridge slot up front, in addition to an "Expansion Chimney", which was the same idea as the A1000's expansion port -- a place to hook up an external expansion box, though in this case, more easily on top of the computer, rather than on the side where most A1000 things wound up. The computer used a 5.25", Apple-II compatible disk drive, and came with 64K of RAM standard. We had a couple of that vintage machine around here just after C= bought Amiga, and inherited the Genlock project. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M.