Subj : RE: Thor2.6
To   : NEIL WILLIAMS
From : DENNIS SMITH
Date : Thu Apr 03 2003 15:09:12

:) Niel!
 > Hi DENNIS,
 >  In a message dated 27 Mar 03 you wrote to CRAIG HUTCHISON :
 > 
 >DS> Is the GVP "Tekmagic" 060 a good buy? This May is one year since
 >DS> the A1 was ordered. If it doesn't show by this May, I was thinking
 >DS> about moving on to this upgrade for old A2K...
 
 > I have seen so many people put off upgrading their Amigas because of
 > the
 > vapourware bull that's been put out over the last half decade and more.
 > I remember people back in 1996 putting off buying faster than an 030
 > because "they're waiting for the A\Box, which will be here next month!"

 What ever happened to AmiJoe? Obviously, it crapped out.
 > 
 > Essentially, in *this* market, don't put off buying *ANYTHING* just
 > because
 > someone else has promised something better due 'really soon now'. I'm
 > not saying the AmigaOne won't appear, but you've had it on pre-order
 > for nearly a year!

 I think the A1 only wants to hangout with UFOs these days! :-\

 > I don't know what specification your A2000 is now, but even over a
 > 25MHz 040

 It's just a common A2000/ec020, GVP ScSi+4Mb ram, and Merlin Gfx. It
all runs OS3.9 BB2 pretty good, but a little slow. =:o A nice memory
usage feature is the Early Startup Menu. Normally I bootup with 3Mb,
but with ESM, I can almost double that to 6Mb via the mouse. But,
that only works, because the 1084S monitor is still in play. I prefer
VGA. :-]

 > the 50MHz 060 is a good four times faster or more for most things. And
 > being
 > able to add 128MB RAM will make just about anything usable (which will
 > be
 > expensive compared to todays DIMMs, but a fraction of the cost of what
 > it was a few years ago).

OK, you gotta point there! My strategy was to grab up an A1 and solve
all the harware problems! If OS4 wasn't ready, I could be bootingup in
LinuxUAE OS3.9. :) But, that never happened yet! :-<

Dennis



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