Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!eris!mwm From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (No one lives forever.) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Some thoughts and questions about the Ranger Message-ID: <2700@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 19:44:57 EST Article-I.D.: jade.2700 Posted: Fri Mar 6 19:44:57 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 13:36:20 EST References: <8703060857.AA19199@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (No one lives forever.) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 32 In article <8703060857.AA19199@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: > The IBM compatibility is definately a plus, but for different reasons. >having IBM expansion slots means the A2000 will suddenly have access to ALL >the third party boards out for the IBM. The A2000 is specifically configured >to allow the Amiga to own a partition on an IBM compatible hard disk (with >no limitations on size). Having a window "which is the IBM" is a delightful >extra, but I personally don't plan to use that aspect of the compatibility. >In otherwords, you can add *CHEAP* hard disks to your Amiga. You're working on the Assumption that the Amiga sans one of the '8 boards can use what's in those slots. I've seen nothing to indicate that this is true. I've had at least one hardware designer ask me why anyone would want to do that. Hard disks aren't the reason - there is a combined SCSI/ST-506 card listed for the machine. It's all the _rest_ of the IBM hardware. Builtin modems; DA hardware; other stuff I can't recall right now (been to long since I looked at a BYTE). While I'm here, someone asked for X. Notice that an X 68020 server binary is 300K+. You really can't run X on a system w/out expansion memory and a hard disk, and it'll be hard then. Maybe Chuck can tell us how big a (S)NeWS server binary is. Finally, I find Matt's answer somewhat amusing. I remember him makin a very similar posting abouta year ago, effectively asking for a Sun. Nice to see you've decide that the Amiga & AmigaDOS are good things, Matt.