CompuServe Messages

Ben, The thing that puzzles me (as well as distresses me) is the way support for A2000 based machines disappeared virtually overnight. Everytime I visit a facility that uses Toasters professionally I see a large number of 2000's, not 4000s. (This is particularly true of Amiga animation based houses since the accelerated A2000 is faster than the stock 4000 and also because of the slot-poor 4000 chassis. Like me, they were all waiting for decent priced A4000Ts to come along :^{…) For us its really bad because the only talk of a '060 for a2000 is an adapter kit from RCS that will be able to provide plug-in replacement for socketted '040s. There are a lot of GVP users with surface mount '040s that are SOL. A4000 users are not quite so bad off as at least 2 firms have promised '060s when the chip ships. BTW, I saw three interesting articles in the Bangkok Nation newspaper while I was away. One was about the Draco ("First Amiga Clone Announced") and the other tw dealt separately with Motorola's record sales an profits, and the other mentioned that DEC sold the factory that produces Alhpa chips (among others) to Motorola who will continue to produce Alpha's under contrec to DEC. (Dec ain't doing so good which means another peice of advanced tech may disappear because of a company going belly-up.). wmc – via Autopilot!