Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdahl!acs From: acs@amdahl.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: upgrades and standards, this time without the flames Message-ID: <17274@amdahl.amdahl.com> Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 00:09:46 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.17274 Posted: Fri Oct 30 00:09:46 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 4-Nov-87 04:18:09 EST References: <5634@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <2639@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: acs@amdahl.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 31 In article <2639@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: >in article <5634@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) says: > >> I don't know what they have in mind. I suspect a hardware upgrade >> that won't work on the A1000, followed by a software upgrade that >> won't work on non-upgraded hardware. This will quickly leave A1000 >> owners in the same shape as people who haven't upgraded to KS1.2. > >Can't happen. Any hardware upgrade would have to happen to ALL systems out >there if it were to be made a viable required upgrade. Very soon now, there'll >be as many non-A1000s as A1000s in the Amiga world. Regardless of how >upgradable there are, they're all A1000 compatible now. So any new software >release would have to include these systems, even if we started shipping >some kind of enhanced system tomorrow. Which also isn't happening. There's >just ONE operating system for A1000s, A500s, and A2000s. And it's staying >that way, enhancements or not. C= FACT or your opinion? Don't wanna be a jerk but it does matter. >> -- >Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga Usenet: {ihnp4|caip|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh > "The B2000 Guy" PLINK : D-DAVE H BIX : hazy > "Computers are what happen when you give up sleeping" - Iggy the Cat -- Tony Sumrall acs@amdahl.com <=> amdahl!acs [ Opinions expressed herein are the author's and should not be construed to reflect the views of Amdahl Corp. ]