Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!homxb!antique!cjp
From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
Summary: Form factor
Message-ID: <2416@antique.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 88 16:26:43 GMT
References: <723@wsccs.UUCP> <4988@cbmvax.UUCP> <2810@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <2810@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.UUCP writes:
>Remember the problems caused when the Zorro-1 form factor was dropped?

Yes.  Most unfortunate.

>The only reason I can see for going to Zorro-2, which is a more difficult
>form-factor to work with, was to get about the same form-factor as IBM-PC
>cards. Was it worth it?

You couldn't put Zorro-1 boards into a nice low box, not without making
them go in horizontally thus making cooling very difficult.  Given that
Zorro-1 was a mistake in this regard, I think fixing it was correct.

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	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ucbvax,mcnc,attmail)!vax135!cjp

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