BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) (03/11/90)
I read a review of the Amiga 2630 accelerator from Commodore, and I quite frankly am shocked that Commodore would cripple such a fine eccelerator with slow memory. This does much to degrade the performance of the entire system when such slow 32-bit RAM is used. In my not-so-humble oppinion, I think that Commodore ought to discontinue the present model of the 2630 and introduce a new version (the '2630A' for instance) that simply uses faster memory. It isn't as if it would bankrupt Commodore's R&D budget to do such a minor revision to the product. The point is that the 2630 isn't just a peripheral product for the Amiga, but forms the core of the Amiga 2500/30. If Commodore wants the Amiga 2500/30 to be popular, they should cripple it needlessly with slow RAM. If they do, they might as well use slower chips as well.
riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) (03/11/90)
In article <13465@baldrick.udel.EDU> BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: > I read a review of the Amiga 2630 accelerator from Commodore, and I >quite frankly am shocked that Commodore would cripple such a fine >eccelerator with slow memory. This does much to degrade the performance >of the entire system when such slow 32-bit RAM is used. Sounds like the AmigaWorld article. The 2630 is *not* crippled, and AmigaWorld is *not* a reliable source for technical information. Followups to comp.sys.amiga.hardware, where this has already been discussed once. -Dan