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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT emulation?
Message-ID: <21164@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 May 91 15:50:33 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <909@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes:
In <1991Apr23.102600.27667@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) writes:

>If Amiga provides everything needed then why the HELL did Commodore
>put IBM Bus Slots in the 2000?!?!?!

It's easy.  Here's a relative comparison of cards on the market:


NeXT   :	

ZorroII: ..

PC     : ..........................................................................................................................................................................

Some cards available for the PC bus even hit a relatively small market in the
40 million+ PC industry.  You'll never see these kinds of things on any other
bus.  A practical example are the Truevision boards.  They did eventually do
one for the Mac NuBus, and who knows, maybe someday there will be a Zorro bus
version (there actually are similar boards from other companies out now).  But
Active Circuits had Truevision+BridgeCard running from Amiga software many,
many moons ago.  That, in my opinion, is the reason to have an AT slot 
extension included in the set of available Zorro bus extensions (the other,
at present, obviously being the video slot).



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