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From: manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1059.284e2b6b@vger.nsu.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 16:32:43 GMT
References: <16577@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <22163@cbmvax.commodore.com> <18@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun6.000019.4876@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun6.041400.21828@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Jun6.041400.21828@neon.Stanford.EDU>, torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
> 
>>  Apple put SCSI in Macs as standard and what happened? Hardly any
>>third party SCSI replacements exist, and from lack of competition
>>they are not very good. 
> 
>   Actually, there are several third party SCSI replacements... e.g.
> Daystar's SCSI board, Micronet's NuPort, ATTO's Silicon Express, 
> Storage Dimension's Data Cannon boards, and they are all fairly
> impressive. 

I am sure that this is true.  However, is that all these hardware
manufacturers produce?  Are those boards the bread and better of 
these hardware manufacturers?  I am willing to wager that they
have other hardware to supliment their income.

Commodore now produces three machines that come standard with a
SCSI.  The Amiga 3000, the Amiga 2500 and the Amiga 2000HD.  I am 
willing to bet that owners of these machines have not rushed out
to purchase a third party SCSI board.

> 
> -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
> "If it weren't for your gumboots, where would you be?   You'd be in the
> hospital, or in-firm-ary..."  F. Dagg

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