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From: scott@scirtp.UUCP (Scott Crenshaw)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Amiga
Message-ID: <397@scirtp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 00:51:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 00:51:08 1985
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Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC
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> Questions about the Amiga:
> 	1.  Can it use a 68010 with minor changes to a few stack offsets in
> the operatins system?
> 	2.  What is the pixel rate for fill and vector operations?
> 	3.  Is the 1.5 Megabyte `hole' for future 1-Megabit chips on board?
> How soon can we expect to see the required 256K X 4 bit chips?  And can the
> on-board coprocessors access this extra memory?
> 	4.  I'm also interested in the timing for off-board memory accesses;
> I assume this memory only has to run half as fast as the on-board memory.
> 	5.  Any 40+ Megabyte hard drives coming out for the machine?
> 	Needless to say, I want one.  Badly.
> 					-tom (rokicki@su-score.arpa)
This is REALLY of general interest -- *please* post answers to the net.
Thanks,
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	   Scott Crenshaw		{akgua,decvax}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp
	   SCI Systems , Inc. 		Research Triangle Park, NC 

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