Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!netcomsv!asher From: asher@netcom.COM (Asher Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: MegaMac Message-ID: <1991Jun6.012641.27032@netcom.COM> Date: 6 Jun 91 01:26:41 GMT References: <55538@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services UNIX System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 39 PYC136@uriacc.uri.edu (Andy Patrizio) writes: >"Dan Galpin (Amiga-quester" 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. >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. >.signed, > / Andy Patrizio | Bitnet: pyc136@uriacc.bitnet \ > / University of Rhode Island | Internet: pyc136@uriacc.uri.edu \ > / | ARPA: pyc136%uriacc@brownvm.brown.edu \ > \ // Amiga... what else? | Usenet: uunet!rayssd!idsvax!andypo / > \ \\// | UUCP: andypo@idsvax.uucp / > \ \/ "What a thrilling life..." -- Precious Metal / Well, the 3000 can take 1.2gigs (?) but there aren't any 32 bit ram boards out for it. I guess if you were crazy enough you can stick in a 2000 16 bit ram board. asher@netcom.com -- /////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | asher@netcom.com OR {apple, amdahl, claris}!netcom!asher | | /// | | /// Amiga: The only "game" machine that runs IBeM, Mac, | | \\\/// Apple II, CP/M, Atar-e St, C=64, AND Unix software. | | \XX/ The Computer For The Creative Mind! |