Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
Message-ID: <4907@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 20:12:54 GMT
References: <8809290745.AA20082@decwrl.dec.com>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <8809290745.AA20082@decwrl.dec.com>, rmeyers@tle.dec.com (Randy Meyers 381-2743 ZKO2-3/N30) says:

> ...As for me, I prefer a more powerful Amiga.  ...

What I want to know is, why does everyone think IBM compatibility and more
powerful Amigas are mutually exclusive?  In fact, they've got nothing what
so ever to do with one another.  The IBM slots in the Amiga 2000 required
zero, 0, ZIP, NIL, NULL, none, void, etc. engineering effort.  They're just
a bunch of connectors with power and ground in the right place.  Bridge
cards are designed by people who'd otherwise be designing PC-10s or PC-20s
or whatever, so they don't get in the way of Amiga people doing great Amiga
things.  So what's the big deal?  You get something that lots of people want
(I'll even use a Bridge card until CUPL is available on the Amiga.  In fact,
I'll trade my Bridge card, PC hard disk, and 5.25" floppy for an Amiga verison
of CUPL) or even have a use for, and it doesn't cost anything.







> Randy Meyers, not representing Digital Equipment Corporation
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