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From: uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: New baseline Amiga?
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Date: 22 Apr 91 16:56:05 GMT
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I think the focus should be on getting the price of the A500 to as low
as possible.  Get it lower than it is today, and it will be more accepted
by the mass market.

Out of curiosity, given that a 16 bit, 7 Mhz 68000 based A500 with
1M of RAM goes for $600.00 (just a guess, use this figure for our
comparison here), what would a 14Mhz 68020 based (or whatever clock speed
would be easy and cheap to implement in a redesign) with 1M of 32 bit
RAM retail for.  Say with a 68881/2 socket, but no math chip.

Basically what would the guestimate of the retail price on an 020 based
32 bit A500 be?

-Roger

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