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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga motherboard dimensions
Message-ID: <1189@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 91 08:27:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbmger.1189
References: <1991Apr30.143013.20317@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Apr30.143013.20317@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>
>It would sure be nice if Commodore would make the Amiga motherboard to
>the same form factor and mount points as the standard PC motherboard,
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>and then stick to it.

Sorry, never seen such a beast. Every motherboard I see is of different
size. Just look through PC magazines like Byte (:-) for all those
Taiwanese ads for pure boards, they all differ.

Though the rest of your idea sounds appaling (sp?), please remember
that also the power supplies of Amigas are *slightly* different from
standard PC ones, they must provide that Tick signal.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk