| From: | john davis |
| Date: | 21 Oct 2000 at 16:23:55 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcing silly named things? ;) |
--- In amigactive@egroups.com, Andy Wanless <yd@f...> wrote:
> http://www.amiga.com/products/one/pr.shtml is a strange thing to
read. The
> "zico" specification for the AmigaOne seems interesting. Why CD/DVD
> though? Shouldn't it be insisting on DVD these days? Why is a modem
part
> of the specification?
Since it pretty much taken for granted in the PC enviroment these
days, I suppose it's the sensible thing to do.
> And Eyetech making a PPC based board to bolt on to existing
1200/4000s in
> 1Q01, with standalone machines coming 6 months later? Not quite so
happy
> with that idea. Still, hopefully someone can manage something else
quickly
> enough.
I personally will wait for a stand alone machine, as I really can't
be arsed to keep hacking-on more and more boards.
> Oh, and some stuff about OS3.9/4.0.
This is interesting tho', since it went really quiet after BB1. I'm
intregued by this emulation offering, interesting to see how fast
this will actually turn out to be.
>
> All seems fairly disappointing to me. Had enough stuff hacked onto
> "classic" Amigas already, and is a PPC AmigaOne going to be that
> impressive?
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> And yes, I'm just trying to stir up some discussion on this one ;)
Don't
> flame too much.
>
> Andy Wanless
regards john
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