Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!eris!spencer From: spencer@eris.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AMIGA 2000 and IBM compatability Message-ID: <3018@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 22:03:05 EST Article-I.D.: jade.3018 Posted: Thu Apr 2 22:03:05 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 01:31:17 EST References: <2845@ecsvax.UUCP> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 56 In article <2845@ecsvax.UUCP> urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes: > >O.K. folks. This thursday IBM is going to announce its new PCs. [Asks Commodore what kind of card he can use with the A2000] >1) Multifunction cards e.g. AST Six Pack >2) 327x emulation cards e.g. DCA Irma >3) IBM EGA graphics card >4) IBM PGA graphics card >5) IBM PCnetwork adapter >6) IBM Token ring adapter >7) 3M Ethernet card >8) Above board or other memory expansions >9) 3086 accelerator cards >10) scsi cards >By work, I mean that their facilities will be available >to the AMIGADOS user in some reasonable fashion. That is >if PCDOS is running is an (intuition?) window, it will >be able to use say the IRma card and the E78 program to >emulate a 3278 terminal. Or use the PCnetwork to access >files from a network server. >Notice that I am not asking for these services to be >available to an AMIGA program, although of course if thats >possible, I'd like to know about it. > I don't need to use ANY PC stuff. I want a hard disk, I want memory. Ok, that I can get. Now I want to get files off the hard disk from my other Amiga (what? not everybody has two Amigas?). I look at all the cards for the PC that I could put in a 2000 and realize that I could only put a hard disk in (and that would be moved to connect to Perry's card when it comes out. I can't get a LAN for my Amiga (who's writing the networking software? Let's use AppleTalk on the serial port!) So there are four PC slots in my 2000 (and a $500 bridge board) that I will never use. So instead I will not trade in my 1000. I will save it and get the 2000-n-1 board. Oh, drat there are those stupid IBM slots again! Why can't I get all the slot space devoted to AMIGA slots? Sounds like ASDG will have more than enough cards to fill in the current number. They could just add slots under the IBM slots so that they don't have to make two card cages. But I would rather have a 2000-n-notIBM cage! Isn't there a large collection of people on this net who have been saying how stupid the IBM part of the 2000 is? Seems to me most current Amiga owners I talk to like buying up, but don't really go for the IBM part, they just want the most recent machine (I know I do). "There's room to move as a fry cook! I could be manager in a year! King!...GOD!!" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)284-4740 I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)283-5469 Now working for |||||||||||::::... . . BUD-LINX But in no way |||||||||||||||::::.. .. . Officially representing ||||||||||||:::::... .. ....ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e spencer@mica.berkeley.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-