Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!owl.cis.ohio-state.edu!watters From: watters@owl.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: USING MORE THAN 1MEG CHIP Keywords: TUBBY LARDO FAT AGNUS 1MEG CHIP Message-ID: <77131@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 14 Feb 90 17:54:59 GMT References: <90021302101315@masnet.uucp> <3277@pikes.Colorado.EDU> <274@bucsb.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: david r watters Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 52 >Commodore is *precisely* this boneheaded. Actually, I don't know if it's >really boneheadedness, it might have to do with the fact that an A500 ships >with only 512K of *any* kind of memeory, so they have to disable Agnus. >At any rate,I know that they ship them disabled, because I recently confirmed >that I have the 1 Meg Agnus by looking at the serial #, but even with 1 full >Meg of memory on my A500, it reports only 512K chip. >*SIGH* Looks like I've got some soldering to do... Ah, poor baby! I suppose you expected to have them ship it enabled with 512K so it would crash as soon as it started up, unless you purchased a A501 when you bought you machine but then you would have said; -------- Severe Whining ------------ But I don't want to buy an A501! -------- Severe Whining off -------- Or maybe you expect them to trash instock 500s and start shipping them with 1meg on board. But then you would say; -------- Severe Whining ------------ But I don't want to pay more for a machine with 1meg that required a complete motherboard revision, I don't need a full 1meg right away! -------- Severe Whining off -------- Maybe they should have done what apple would have done and not install a new Agnus, until a motherboard revison was done, and make you buy the new one on your own, but then you whould have said; -------- Severe Whining ------------ This machine is brand new, why should I have to pay for a new chip, the A2000 people don't have to! -------- Severe Whining off -------- I have been an Amiga dealer, and I have talked to CBM personel from the disctrict sales manager, all the way to the engineers. The are competent people, who just happen to have every answer to your 'Why did the boneheads do this...' comment, they even had an extremely proper answer to MY 'Why havent you released UNIX over here yet?' -- If you must know it is because the front end dealers would not be able to support it one little bit, and this is so damn true, since most Amiga salespeople are 22year old hackers that would have no clue when someone called and said, 'I have some 'c' code that compiles fine on my Sun4, why won't it compile on this thing, or, this Unix application isn't running on this thing, why? ' The moral of the story, I don't care how smart you are, whining at CBM won't do anything but annoy others. If you have a suggestion, make it. If you have an opinion, say it... But make sure it is justified, and please stop whining. DW