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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 020/881 for B2000!! Please!
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Date: 18 Oct 88 19:33:13 GMT
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In article <1314@teroach.UUCP> stan@teroach.UUCP (Stan Fisher) writes:
>   Would someone please follow in the Lucas board footsteps and produce 
> a Pub-Domain 020 for the 2000?  I'd love to do it, but just dont' have the 
> resources at hand.  Just a form-factor change to the Lucas should do it,
> perhaps with a few timing tweeks.
> OH PLEASE, OH PLEASE, OH PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!
>+           Stan Fisher        uunet!unisoft!nud!teroach!stan             
>+ Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Arizona -  (602) 438-3228 

Stan, and others. Your plea, I can sympathize with, but you probably
won't get the answer your looking for. Why not? Because there is no
"reason" to do it. If you are desperate for a cheap '020 board, work
at Motorola no less, and can't squeeze together the resources to make
one, what do you suppose it will take to do it? I'm not trying to pick
on you, I'm just pointing out the incongruity of your posting. 

The other thing that makes this unlikely is that there are no less than
three makers of '020 boards for the Amiga 2000 (if you count CBM) and
*all* of them seem to have gone to great lengths to make them work
properly. Problems with noise, timing, etc that seem to indicate that
to do the job "right" requires several hundred hours of development
time. Everyone I have talked to who hacks part time on the Amiga for
"free" spends at most 10 - 15 hours on it a week. Sometimes more, sometimes
less but the average is there. That means to develop a "free" board would
probably require a year of someone's off-hours. And frankly, I think that
is beyond the threshold of the "shareware" phenomena. 


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