From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
Subject: Re: Its a sad sad day...
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:11:59 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.234358.15762@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>Frank R. Dana Jr. (danaf@bray1b.its.rpi.edu) wrote:
>:|> 
>:|>OverDrive gives you a new cpu chip that has an internally doubled clock,
>:|>you don't get a faster memory bus and possibly a faster SCSI interface like
>:|>the Amiga cpu boards give you.
>: 
>:OHHHH, now I get it! Not only is it an old idea to us, the PC slot isn't even
>:as GOOD! It's all so clear now....
>
>The OverDrive slot is for a new CPU, and that's that.  You can add SCSI and 
>memory expansion to your PC using other means.

Intel's little scam certainly seems to have worked.  The 486sx should have
been the 486scam (or maybe scum) as it is nothing more than a crippled 486.
The OverDrive socket comes from the old 487scam socket, with the 486scam
really being a true 486.

SCSI can indeed be added, but it doesn't appear to be as easy as slapping
one in an Amiga.  A friend's 486 has a great SCSI drive, but DOS doesn't
seem to like it very much.  Even Windows has patches for SCSI.

>No, plugging in an OverDrive CPU won't give you a new disk controller or
>more memory like the Amiga "new-guts-on-a-card" accelerator, but it costs
>less.

Not every Amiga accelerator replaces the entrails of the machine.  Several
of the boards provide the CPU, maybe some RAM, and not much else.  As for
cost, well, no one is going to argue that peripherals for the Amiga are as
cheap as those on the Clones.  If you think about the relative sizes of 
the markets, it is not reasonable to believe that Amiga prices will ever
be less.

Speaking of guts, anyone out there ever tried chit'lins?  Some folks might
spell it chitterlings or some such nonsense, but down here you'd be laughed
out of the room if you did that.  For those who don't know, chit'lins are
the guts of a pig, either fried or boiled (and hopefully cleaned first :-).

Also, anyone ever eaten haggis?  I was in Scotland last year and despite 
all the warnings, it actually tasted pretty good.  Of course, almost anything
tastes good after 6-7 pints of bitter.  :-)

>Gosh, you Amigoids sure get excited when you think you see an opportunity to
>bash another system.

Wouldn't your life be boring if we didn't bash other systems?  What on earth
would you do if you didn't have to defend the Honor of the PC against all of
us horrible Amiga barbarians?  :-)

>: (Hell, the Amiga accelerator even sped up my FLOPPIES!  8)  )
>
>Oh great.  So if I want to speed up my Amiga floppies, all I have to do is
>pay for the 040, SCSI-2, and extra memory.

No, just an 030 for an A500 or A2000 would do it.  Funny thing is, the 486
I use at work has much faster floppies than the pokey 386-40s in the labs,
so the same thing could be said about a PC.  Just throw away the old 386
junk motherboard, pop in a shiny new 486 motherboard, and your floppies go
faster.

>: =======Amiuser============Frank R. Dana, Jr.============Doc Ami=======     

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