Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: New Gordo Agnes...? Message-ID: <7647@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 13 Aug 89 16:14:12 GMT References: <10721@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 17 In article <10721@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hunt@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Lee Cameron Hunt) writes: > Here in Boulder, CO I was talking to a local dealer and he was telling > me that the new Amigas were shipped with a daughterboard attached to the > Agnes which, in turn, is socketed in the motherboard. He implied that this > was new, that previously the Agnes was simply socketed in the motherboard > directly. > > Is this true? If so, any reason? (prep for the ECS, perhaps?) No, this person sounds rather confused. Some A2000's do have a little tower board over by the DRAM to make static column DRAM work with the Amiga chipset, but Agnus sits tight in her normal socket... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)