XFH09@ccvax.iastate.edu (03/12/90)
I would like to make some comments on the A2630 accelerator
card from Commodore. I read a review of it in AmigaWorld, and
I am surprised that Commodore would take such a fine product and
cripple it severely with slow memory.
The point is that the A2630 is not a mere peripheral product
for the Amiga 2000, but forms the core of several new Amiga
systems. To cripple the A2630 card with slow RAM is to cripple
all of these systems.
It is my sincere hope that the people at Commodore who have
any say about this will be wise enough to do a minor revision
to the board by simply using faster RAM. The increase in
performance of all systems using this board would be almost
dramatic.
To me, the idea of equipping this card with slow memory is
not just a mistake but, frankly, just plain stupid. Using
faster RAM will increase the price a bit, but the overall
dramatic increase in performance would more than offset this
slightly higher price.
If Commodore does not wish to do this, could you at least make
the A2630 available with no memory? I know more than a few people
who would like to just rip out the slow RAM chips and replace them
with faster ones. Having the A2630 available with no RAM would
at least save them a step.
Marc Barrett