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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some thoughts and questions about the Ranger
Message-ID: <1515@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Mar-87 21:04:48 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  7 21:04:48 1987
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Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <2700@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (No one lives forever.) Meyer) writes:
>
>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).

Right, no bridge card, not PC slot action.  UNLESS, you plug in one of
those PC or AT on-a-card things.  Of course that's basically what the
bridge card is, but it also contains a dual-ported memory to allow the
two systems to communicate.

>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.

Well, to give Matt credit, most of his bitching was about AmigaDOS itself.
I assume he's found there's a lot more to the system then that...
-- 
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