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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
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Subject: Re: AMIGA
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In article <5fDh02JY072Q01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard) writes:

>'040s are shipping.  I upgraded my cube.
>BTW - For those of you who think that an '040 upgrade to the Amiga will
>be $800.  Don't count on it.  Motorola wants $700 a piece for the chip
>Qty 1000, paid in advance.  You add marketing, development, and manufact.
>cost and my guess is you will be well above $1400.  The cheapest Mac
>'040 board is above $2000.
	       ^^^^^^^^^^^
Okay, now *everybody* sing:  WHY IS THIS?  'Cause the '040 boards for ANY
Mac will require all that glue, cache, and ram business on the board.
It's CPU slot isn't the full 40-whatever pins it takes to interface an '040.
The 3000 was built with the '040 ready to drop in.  Now, the '040 board
for the 2000 series could be more expensive than the '030s out there
now, for the same reason.  But the 3000's '040 board will pretty much be
just the '040, and some logic stuff.

'Least that's how I understand it.

>>   for now, how about comparing the NeXT/030 to the Amiga3000? Or how
>>   about ending this thread. If you don't want to buy an Amiga, you can
>>   always by a NeXT. Hanging around in Amiga constantly bombarding
>>   Amiga users with comparisions presents a negative image to potential
>>   buyers Try bugging the IBM groups, or the Sun/Sparc groups and see what
>>   they think of Sun Sparc vs NeXT.
>>
>>Because NeXT doesn't sell an 030 machine!!!!  Therefore, you're going
>>to have to wait longer for it than the 040 machine.
>
>You could always go back in time.

And those of us who have an '030 NeXT and can't afford to upgrade?  Well, we
can just go straight to hell, I 'spose.  My A1000 has more support. 1/2 :-)

>>-Mike
>
>KeNT

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