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From: dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael 'Moose' Dinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: MegaMac
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.205258.17699@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 5 Jun 91 20:52:58 GMT
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In article <55538@nigel.ee.udel.edu> PYC136@uriacc.uri.edu (Andy Patrizio) writes:
>"Dan Galpin (Amiga-quester" <galpin@ucscb.ucsc.edu> writes:
>
>[*** WARNING. TANGENT APPROACHING! ***]
>(*** BY the way.. have you checked MacGeek (The Macintosh Weekly Magazine) :-)
>lately.. People sell 50Mhz MacIIFX repackages with 128MBytes of RAM (using
>16 MB simms.) Show me an Amiga that can currently be expanded to 128Megs of RAM.
>
>Knowing Apple products, that Mac will probably cost more than a fully-
>loaded Lexus LS400, and won't be anywhere near as well built.
No comment, the whole world knows it's true :-)

>Secondly, what in the world do you need 128 Meg of RAM for? Even UNIX doesn't
>suck up that much memory.

Dunno, but I believe Dave Haynoe had an A3000 with 128M of RAM to show some 
bigwigs once... So it CAN be done even if it's not normally available...

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