sanders@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert M Sanders) (11/27/90)
Hello World, I've been mulling this over for a bit, but am now seriously thinking about either upgrading my 2000 with additional hardware, or attempting to sell it outright and get a 3000. What I'm hoping for is some suggestions as to possible courses of action to take. I've listed current hardware, desired performance, and some other information below, along with some questions that I've been asking. Any help would be appreciated. Please e-mail responses to 'sanders@brahms.udel.edu'. Many thanks.... Rob Background: My Ami arrived home in Dec of 1987, and is a base 2000, ie one meg ram, 68000, old Agnus, etc, external 3.5" drive, 1084 monitor,Supra 2400 external modem, Star NX-10 printer. Usual usage: Graphics programming (fractals, raytracing [yeah, pretty slow]), some games, school work (5th year comp sci major, general messing around with the system. Future plans: Futher programming, including MIDI work, messing w/UNIX, possible some networking. Prospective Machine: 68030 running at 25 mhz(w/appropriate FP),3+megs of ram, 100mb hd, AT or 386 BridgeCard, Amax, UNIX. Possible additional goodies: MIDI equipment, audio digitizer. Questions: 1) Assuming I upgraded the 2000 w/an 68030 card, additional memory, appropriate chips (fat Agnus, etc), would it still be 'essentially' the same as the 3000? By essentially read 'anything that ran on a 3000 would run on the 2000 with the above mods'. 2) Cost comparisions. An eyeball guess (primarily on hardware) puts upgrading the 2000 to be less than getting the 3000, including educational discount. 3) Future expansion. The 2000 has more expansion slots (at least I think it does) than the 3000. After all the additional mods have been made, would the 2000 still have more slots available to it that a comparable 3000? 4) AT or possible 386 BridgeCard. The last thing I heard was that the AT BridgeCard wasn't working in the 3000. Is this still the case, or was I hearing pure static. As a side note, are there any plans for a 386 BridgeCard that are for a true full 386 chip? Again, many thanks.....