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From: swarren@eugene.uucp (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Non-Zorro slots in the Amiga 3000
Keywords: 3000 slots
Message-ID: <3952@convex.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 16:13:14 GMT
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In article <5971@ubc-cs.UUCP> panon@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Paul-Andre Panon) writes:
>In article <20643@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP,
>(David C. Navas) lays out a proposed method for having 32-bit Amiga and PC
>busses (sp?) in an Amiga 3000
         [...description of why Paul feels this would be bad...]
>Customers would have to make a decision as to which is more important to them,
>PC slots or 32-bit Amiga slots.  A more expensive tower could come out later
>but I would rather see a lower-cost '030-based amiga first. 

You are probably right, although sometimes I wonder if the designers
watch us discussing things about which we know nothing substantive
(that is, what will their design decisions be) and smile.

Oh well, such is the lot of the ignorant peasants ;^).

If Commodore wants to really beat the Mac price point and sell a lot of
A3000s they will probably need to come out with a box such as you describe.

Maybe they could come out with a neo-sidecar connected with flex-cable
to an expansion port  ;^).  Use a standard baby-AT case so there would
be some expansion lots; yeah, that's the ticket...

--Steve
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