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From: rb@ccivax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Expand at your own risk!
Message-ID: <440@ccivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 20:49:56 EST
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In article <1355@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> michael@vlsi.caltech.edu@caip.RUTGERS.EDU writes:
>From: michael@vlsi.caltech.edu
>I advise everyone to not buy either fixed hard disks or memory for their
>Amiga yet.
>The same company will also be making a 16 Mb board which looks like a hard
>disk (even plugs in to your current controller), but one with a 10
>microsecond "track-to-track" access time.

	Let's hope it has an SCSI interface!

>I hereby predict that fixed hard disks will be obsolete within a year.
>					Steve Walton

Don't count on it.  We have 65Mb RAM disks and we still need CDC 300MB
drives to back them up.  Hopefully, this company will come up with a
good "Swapper and Cacher" package to go with the RAM disks, if it does,
the MMU problem may become almost acedemic(sp?).