Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!aramis!paul!dpz From: dpz@paul.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AMIGA 2000 and IBM compatability Message-ID: <337@john.paul.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 23:29:16 EST Article-I.D.: john.337 Posted: Fri Apr 3 23:29:16 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 06:57:51 EST References: <2845@ecsvax.UUCP> <3018@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 35 > From: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) > I don't need to use ANY PC stuff. I want a hard disk, I want memory. Same here, presently, until I see some really neat PC expansion board that I want. I really haven't found anything in the run-of-the-mill IBM boards that I don't have in my Amiga. A clock will be in Perry's box, and I already have parallel and serial ports, mouse support, joystick ports, and video built in. But I am not ruling out the future. > 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 Whoa. Perry's box has a maximum of 7 Amiga slots, isn't that enough? 2 Zorro-1 slots, 3 Zorro-2 only slots, and 2 Zorro-2/AT slots (plus the 2 PC only slots). If you don't put any AT cards in, you have a total of 7 Zorro-1/2 slots. > 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 What is stupid about covering your butt? Expandability and flexibility are the main concerns here, and given a choice between keeping the Amiga castrated from the rest of the world, and trying to bridge the gap to provide for more utility, I would choose the latter, both as a company and as a user. dpz -- David P. Zimmerman rutgers!dpz dpz@rutgers.edu