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From: hbo@hub.ucsb.edu (Howard Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: EXTRA_HALFBRITE (was V1.3 OS?)
Message-ID: <479@hub.ucsb.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 88 05:47:23 GMT
References: <7425@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <471@hub.ucsb.edu> <44456@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: hbo@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Howard Owen)
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
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Summary: I don't think EHB is worth it.


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In article <44456@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <471@hub.ucsb.edu> hbo@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Howard Owen) writes:
>>
   (He quotes me asserting that perhaps 40% of Amigas do not have EHB)

>Well you are way off in your estimate, it goes something like this. There
>
       (He goes on to assert that the number is closer to 15%)
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   (He quotes me stating that the 2000 is about like the 1000 and 500 inside,
     so why give up compatibility just for EHB?)

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>I disagree with the above sentiment completely. What the 2000 gives you
>is *capability* not new features. Look at the stuff coming out for the 2000,
>it is four times as much activity as the 1000 had. And it generally works
>too. No, as Commodore learned (and Atari will learn) the Expansion Connector
>is good for one thing, adding one (1) expansion unit. Be it a box with slots
>or a memory card. The 2000 can be made to be a 68020 machine or have more
>chip ram, or do non-interlaced screens. Your 1000 couldn't and can't. Yes
>is was a definite improvement, and I for one think deserves recognition. 
>What the 500 gave us was 'cheap', the ability to sell this wonderful technology
>into the *very* price sensitive home market. Something else you couldn't
>do with the 1000. Yes, they both were steps forward.
>

    Pardon me for speaking ill of the new machines. I'm not really that unhappy
with my 2000. I bought it principally because I was convinced I'd be able to
build on it for some time to come. When the new Agnes comes out, I'll be pleased
to take advantage of the applications that will require one meg of chip RAM. 
Until the whiz-bang, Commodore blessed add-ons emerge, however, I still think 
it's a bad idea to gratuitously exclude 15%, or 40% or whatever sizable slice 
of your potential market the non-EHB machines actually represent.
 
>--Chuck McManis


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