Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!att-ih!pacbell!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CEBIT Commodore Announcements (A2500, A3000), shipping RSN Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 88 08:39:21 GMT References: <7735@oberon.USC.EDU> <10260005@eecs.nwu.edu> <9454@sunybcs.UUCP> <3488@cbmvax.UUCP> <8649@g.ms.uky.edu> <8659@g.ms.uky.edu>, <4012@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: <4012@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro) writes: > It's a --ckin' SIN that it looks like A1000 owners > won't be able to get the new graphics chips. And it's also a ---ckin' SIN that you can't add an SE expansion slot to the Mac Plus or put a MicroChannel bus on your PC AT. I do agree with you that I would like to have the new graphics chips on my A1000. But did you ever stop to think that the A1000 motherboard might, just MIGHT, be designed such that to use those new chips you would have to replace/redesign/tear apart the motherboard? Did you ever stop to think that this would be costly for Commodore to do? I would like one meg of chip RAM and non-interlace graphics on my A1000 too. But I would much rather see Commodore stay in business producing Amigas. This is a stupid argument, and I realize I am fanning the flames by participating, but I simply cannot believe how naive some people can be. If you don't like the policy, don't buy another Commodore computer, but nobody is going to listen to your bitching when you find out nobody else offers a better upgrade path for *their* machines. --M Michael Portuesi / Carnegie Mellon University ARPA/UUCP: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: rainwalker@drycas "Memories are uncertain friends, when recalled by messages" -- OMD, "Messages"