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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000 speculation
Message-ID: <1409@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 23:10:30 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1409
Posted: Fri Feb 13 23:10:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Feb-87 23:36:33 EST
References: <656@rayssd.RAY.COM>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom SALES)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: Good move, CBM!

In article <656@rayssd.RAY.COM> jxc@rayssd.RAY.COM (Jeffrey J. Clesius) writes:
$	Here's some early observations, speculations, thoughts and issues
$about the Amiga 2000 pre-announcement in COMPUTE!
$[...praise for 2000 deleted...]
$
$A BIG negative:
$   Hope you like the hardware that's out there for the 1000 now, 'cause you
$won't see many new developments.
$Face it, what incentives exist to develop expansion hardware
$for a static architecture?  The developments will be primarily for the
$expandable 2000; the 500 will be aimed at the 520ST market, the 1000 at the
$1040ST market and the 2000 for the open-end market.  The unfortunate fact
$is that CBM missed the boat by not producing a STANDARD EXPANSION CHASSIS
$at the onset.

What's to prevent someone from providing an expansion chassis for the 1000
and 500 which allow those computers to use cards for the 2000?

It isn't too late at all.  And once such a device is available (seems the
Byte-by-Byte box can't be far off), then all can enjoy the same cards.

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