Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!hamilton From: hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: rumor mongering again Message-ID: <172200025@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 15:38:00 EST Article-I.D.: uxc.172200025 Posted: Sun Jan 11 15:38:00 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 05:39:17 EST References: <1595@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #R:uwmcsd1.UUCP:1595:uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:172200025:000:1030 Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!hamilton Jan 11 14:38:00 1987 tim kay (news@cit-vax) says: > phillip@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Phillip Lindsay) writes: > > >> Big Rumor: > >> CBM will offer upgrade to A1000 owners for ~$800. > > >Next you'll tell me IBM is offering XT owners a $500 AT upgrade...:-] > > Well, not from IBM, but you can buy the Breakthru 286 from PCSG for > $395, and your PC will run just slightly faster than an 8Mhz AT. So > why is the $800 upgrade to the Amiga unreasonable? an 80286 doesn't turn an XT into an AT. a souped-up XT286, maybe, but not an AT. you'd need a new motherboard and case, at a minimum. to me, it ain't an AT unless it has 24 address lines, 16 data lines, 15 interrupts, 7 DMA channels, real time clock, etc., and it can accept AT form-factor expansion cards. wayne hamilton U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL UUCP: {ihnp4,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!hamilton ARPA: hamilton%uiucuxc@a.cs.uiuc.edu USMail: Box 476, Urbana, IL 61801 CSNET: hamilton%uiucuxc@uiuc.csnet Phone: (217)333-8703 CIS: [73047,544] PLink: w hamilton