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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hey, Commodore Sales:  Amiga 3000 Warning
Message-ID: <1822@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 19:10:14 GMT
References: <7735@oberon.USC.EDU> <247@sdrc.UUCP> <930@rmi.UUCP> <61@kenobi.UUCP> <2503@unicus.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Look at the IBM-PC

I hope that Commodore isn't going to screw something up that even IBM
got right. Look at the IBM AT bus. It's basically the XT bus with some
extra lines.

Look at the Zorro-2 bus. It's got room to put those extra lines in. They'd
have to be left out of one of the bridge slots (you are going to have bridge
slots in the 3000, aren't you?), but the other bridge slot and the Zorro-2
slots could have a secondary slot just like that ol' AT's.

There's the extra slots you need for the 32-bit bus, and nobody gets screwed.

And if you do it this way, someone will be able to build a 2000-and-3 card
that gives you those lines and connects them to a magic connector on their
68030 card.

On another point... have you seen the coverage of the new Sun 386 machine.
We've been able to "cut and paste between MS-DOS and..." in this case
AmigaDOS for months. Welcome to the future.
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