Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!clout!chinet!miroc!caw From: caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura) Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Distribution: world References: <5068@orbit.cts.com> <16647@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <#g1H3+$o@cs.psu.edu> Date: 8 Jun 91 02:40:22 CDT In article <#g1H3+$o@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <231@touch.touch.com> mikeh@touch.touch.com (Mike Haas) writes: > >> The A3000 can handle 128Meg or RAM...without even blinking! In >> fact...it's expandable to to 1.8 GIG!!! (a GIG, for you mac folks who >> never deal with such numbers, is 1024 Meg). That's real memory, on the >> bus! Yes, but that mega expansion board doesn't actually exist (yet). Dave H. just said in a previous post that one could reasonably expect a 64 meg board using 4M part or a 256 meg board using 16M parts. But no one has actually released such a beast yet. >> NOW...you show ME a mac that can be expanded to 1.8 GIG...now or in the The high-end Macs undoubtably (sp?) have the same kind of expansion abilities. But again, I don't think they have that 1gig RAM board, either. >> future...virtual mem or otherwise! Give up...pull down "shutdown" for >> the last time...get an amiga 'cause you really HAVE been missing something! [ that's a cheap shot. you're not gonna win over anybody that way. ] >You Amiga users are going to have to try and understand that the A3000 >is probably not the last computer that you are ever going to own, and >there really isn't a need to have 1.8GB of memory expansion(128MB >maybe). In a couple of years(I say two) that A3000 is going to look >like a toy. And in that same couple of years the high-end Mac's won't look like a toy either? Or i486 based machines? Or even a SPARC 1? I don't see how this argument can be used to differentiate any computer as better or worse. -=> CAW Christopher A. Wichura Multitasking. Just DO it. caw@miroc.chi.il.us (my amiga) ...the Amiga way... u12401@uicvm.uic.edu (school account)