| From: | David McMinn |
| Date: | 13 Sep 99 at 09:57:22 |
| Subject: | Re: (OT) AMiGA is dead. (Well mine certainly is...) |
Hi Mikkel
> So here's the thing. I can go and buy a "new" AMiGA in the stores for
> 1994 prices, which is about £1500, then I can get a PPC board which
You could try getting a second hand one, it'll be a bit cheaper
although they're still overpriced. I got a 1200 motherboard for 20
UKP through AmiBench. A4000 stuff might be harder to get I suppose.
> for some strange reason far beyond me uses expencive 72 pin EDO RAM,
> and not only that, but you need to have TWO of them. What kind of shit
I think thats something to do with the EDO ram being 32 bit and PPC
processors being 64 bit. Can't remember, but you needed 2 of them in
Pentium PC's as well.
> is that ? Well, P5 rectified that on thier G4 cards, now at least it's
> SDRAM, but, in their infinate wisdom they decided to use LAPTOP RAM !
> What kindof ignorant shit is that ?!?
Yeah, real dim that. No pun intended.
> So I'm left with Iwin and Gateway. To deliver the promise of
> affordable home computing.
>
> I know. I'm screwed.
:)
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