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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <1991May8.032803.8303@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 8 May 91 03:28:03 GMT
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In article <48628@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>In article <1991May6.193235.27330@leland.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
>
>>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.
>
>I don't know how many pins the '040 will require, but my SE/30 has a 120 pin
>Direct Slot.  The IIsi has basically the same slot (or at the very least can
>get adapted to it.)

Well, the -whatever stood for 80.  Honest.

>>Dave Hopper      |     /// Anthro Creep  | Academic Info Resources, Stanford
>>                 |__  ///     .   .      | Macincrap/UNIX Consultant
>                                            ^^^^^^^^^
>It is much easier to bash a computer when you just make it up as you go
>along. The advice of a consultant who can't be bothered to look up or remember
>the facts is worth a fart in the wind - maybe.

All right, so I can't count.  Macintosh consultants don't need to.
Besides, Allen, watch what you're assuming.  I happen to think wind
farts are extremely valuable.

Who needs a ;-) ?
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