Earl_Colby_Pottinger wrote:
>Base memory would be 1MB instead of the 256K as it first shipped on
>the Amiga. The Atari ST shipped with 512K but you need at-least 1 MB
>to have a clear advantage over the IBM PC for business programs.
And 1MB of memory would make extraordinarily expensive. Just like the
Apple's and Mac's of OTL, cheap PC's would push it off the market.
In the time frame specified, computers often shipped with less memory
than they were notionally capable of handling because memory was
expensive.
D.
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