lgreen@pnet01.cts.com (Lawrence Greenwald) (03/31/88)
I know of all the stuff of what runs on the A1000 but runs flaky on either
the A500 or A2000.
What I'm going to ask is...
Has anyone seen any stuff that runs OK on the A500 but runs flaky or
won't run on the A2000?
and Vice Versa...
I'm sure that's one someone hasn't thought of in recent memory...
Larry Greenwald
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-- Dr. Zachary Smith, forever "Lost in Space"gregb15@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Greg Beckham) (06/26/88)
I was just talking to a friend about the A500 and the A2000... and he said
that the 2000 had some of the ports flipped or switched, some software was
incompatible, and the system was buggy.... this is very disheartening to me
because I was planning on buying an A2000. Are these alegations true?
Dismayed,
Greg Beckham
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In a previous article gregb15@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Greg Beckham) wrote: > > I was just talking to a friend about the A500 and the A2000... and he said >that the 2000 had some of the ports flipped or switched, some software was >incompatible, and the system was buggy.... this is very disheartening to me >because I was planning on buying an A2000. Are these alegations true? > Perhaps in the most literal sense they're true, but I would say that these changes were for the better, not the worse. Ports flipped/switched: The gender of the serial and parallel connectors are reversed now, to conform more with common usage elsewhere (as in PC-land). Means it's easier to buy common cables. Buy a $7 gender-bender if you've got 1000 compatible cables. Incompatible software: So far, all the incompatible stuff I've seen was just written poorly and broke because the 2000 has 1 Meg memory whereas the 1000 only had 512K (Max). Before expanded memory became commonplace, developers sometimes wrote programs without testing them on expanded memory systems, and so didn't find the problems. System buggy? News to me. My 2000 works as well as my 1000 ever did. And I sure never found an acceptable way of adding 2Meg memory + hard drive to my 1000 (without shelling out megabucks). Yeah, I still wish I could slide my keyboard under my machine when I'm not using it :-) but otherwise I'm perfectly happy with my 2000. Mark Lanzo ...mcnc!ece-csc!rss