my AO G4XE will arrive beginning April 2003 :-)

[Kronos]

JurassicCamper wrote:


Optimist  :-P  :-P  :-D

/me is not so sure .....

What does "confirmation" mean ?
Back than I told KDH to drop me an email when the got a board
"with my name on it", so that I could send the money.

But that wouldn't take ~2 weeks .... (under 1 in my case).

That what did they say/write ?
"We got the boards here, and are just serching for some post-stamps"
"Alan said they will come, and in Alan we trust"
"We just put another bogus release-date on our page and have
decided that it is time to cash in"

(o.k. the cashing-in part doesn't really sound like KDH)

[Kronos]

@Atheist

Häh ??

Amigas were cheap and thats why they sold so good.

In 1990 the A500 costed 800 DM (400 Euro), a starter PC
was around 2000DM (we are talking low-end 286 here).

An A2000 was around 1500DM, but simply offered more than PCs.
And it was very usable for video, something even 10000 DM PCs
couldn't do.

So yes they were cheap.

The price/power factor for the AA-Amigas was in about the same
region as PCs of that time, and thats why they sold far worse
than the OCS-ones.

"SIMM-Sockets" ?
What kind of sockets are you talking about ?
Before 1989 everybody was using DRAM in DIL-packs, just
like the ones soldered onto the OCS-mobos.
Than there was ZIP-packs (used in the A3k) and SIPPs (used
on some Z2-cards), but try to find some of those today.
Later came the first 8(9) bit SIMMS, followed by PS/2 (FP or EDO)
and now DIMMs (SDR or DDR).

Those standarts only live for a very short period of time.


And something I will never understand:
Why does everybody want that OCS/AA-emu ?
What SW is out there that wouldn't run in UAE, but on this one ?
(must be AA-only and PPC)
Why not just keep the "real" Amiga for games and such (which will
most likely not run under such an emu) ?

This OS-update is about getting away from that legacy stuff,
not about dragging a dead horse ....