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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Would like information about "Insider" memory expansion.
Message-ID: <1740@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 16:01:27 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 25 16:01:27 1987
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In article <2439@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> eric@hector (Eric Lavitsky) writes:
> 
> I really resent those manafacturers who claim their product "auto-configs"
> when they reside in this location - they didn't do all the hard work and
> debugging like those who spent the time to get their products to really
> auto-config. Take a look at the Insider - not autoconfig PALs on there...

It is equally tiresome to hear certain nameless vendors refer to their
products as "zorro compatible" when only their top-of-the line expansion
product is really complient.

The ideal A1000 *internal* expansion device would replace the current kickstart
tower with the 1.2 Kickstart ROM, 1 MB of RAM and an A500/A2000 compatible
real-time clock.  Given a careful design, this would add *no* additional
loading to the expansion bus signals and would not consume very much more
power.  Commodore has already licensed the ROM contents and would probably
be willing to sell the actuall A500 ROM chips, either as service parts or in
volume...   Anybody interested in doing it "right"?
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)