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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIGA 2000 and IBM compatability
Message-ID: <44@esunix.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 16:20:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  6 16:20:06 1987
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in article <3018@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, spencer@eris.UUCP says:
> 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). 

Perry, why not extend the Amiga side of the bus by two more slots?
Simply putting Amiga slots in line with the two PC slots on the far left
of the machine would give those of us that don't have much use for the
IBM stuff two more slots, without hurting those that need IBM slots.
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland
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