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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re:      MegaMac
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.014440.885@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 Jun 91 01:44:40 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.001939.28047@milton.u.washington.edu> stevep@wrq.com (Steve Poole) writes:
>In article <55538@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Andy Patrizio <PYC136@uriacc.uri.edu> writes:
>>Secondly, what in the world do you need 128 Meg of RAM for? Even UNIX doesn't
>>suck up that much memory.
>>
>>It sounds to me like a computer version of the Spruce Goose. Big, ugly, awkward
>> and useless.
>
>Big?  16MB SIMMs really aren't all that large.  Ugly and awkward?  Huh?
>
>How can you support a progressive platform like the Amiga when you have such
>a braindamaged regressive view?  Sounds like you wear computer bigotry
>blinders.

...and this whole discussion is moot, since the 3000 can address what,
some 1.8 gigabytes of autoconfigure RAM (or is it 2 gigs)?

God, I can't believe no one's brought that up yet.

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