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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CEBIT soreheads
Message-ID: <2030@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 17:57:04 GMT
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Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <8713@g.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>Hardware support, noodlehead, hardware support. Most specificially I was
>referring to the announcement of non-interlace chips for the 500 amd 2000,
>but not the 1000.  Even with a 2000-in-1, how am I going to use these chip
>upgrades?

Well, I suppose C= could decide NOT to provide new non-interlace 1MB chip
ram chips just so we can all remain fully compatible with the A1000, a
machine designed before anyone thought of enhancing the chips.  Is that
what you consider hardware support?  Keeping us all held back to no more
than the A1000 can handle?  Or maybe they should have had ESP and known
years ago when the A1000 was designed that they might someday want to
make various unspecified changes to various designs, and hooked the entire
CPU bus up to all of the custom chips?

I mean, I don't know what the hell you expect, them to produce a completely
redesigned A1000 board and try to get all the dealers to do installations?
If they did that, due to the costs and (relatively small) quantities
involved, it would cost you a good $1000 anyway, so you'd have been
better off trading in on a 2000.  Ask a Mac owner how much the replace-the-
entire-board upgrades for the Mac's have cost.  And that assumes you have
a decent network of dealers that like to actually DO hardware updates, which 
may be assuming a lot.  And even then, you'll be without your machine for
awhile.

Keith Doyle
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