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Article #3463Re: Amiga and ST Reliability
From: Donald R Lloyd
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1989 03:24
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1989 03:24
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In article <1647@pkmab.se> daniel@pkmab.se (Daniel Deimert) writes:
>In article <16147@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
> kgschlueter@violet.waterloo.edu (Kevin Schlueter) writes:
>>
>>Well, the nice thing about the Amiga is that you can easily add things like
>>extra memory, faster CPUS, floating point coprocessors, and large monochrome
>>(1000x800) monitors.
>
>And that shouldn't be possible on the ST?
>Extra memory? Why not buy it at once, as with the 1040ST (1Mb) or the Mega ST?
>(2 or 4 Mb)
How expandable is the ST? 4 megs max, I thought. The amiga can go to 9
with no special modifications.
>Faster CPUs exists to, there was some articles posted about this for a
>month ago I think.
The only CPU accelerators I've seen for the ST are 16 MHz 68000's.
The amiga's got '020s and 030'S running at up to 28 MHz.
>
>Aeeghh... I'm sick'n'tired of this 'argumenting'.
Nah, I kind of like it. People send me hate mail & make me feel
important.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!udccvax1!don From: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Amiga and ST Reliability Message-ID: <4268@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Date: 29 Aug 89 03:24:49 GMT References: <65.24F67146@metnet.FIDONET.ORG> <16147@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1647@pkmab.se> Reply-To: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 32