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- From: "Ronny G. Nordvik" <Ronny.Nordvik@edb.uib.no>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Amiga HOT STUFF...
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 15:36:15 +0100
- Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
- Message-ID: <310643DF.1850@edb.uib.no>
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- Amiga Computing is going to be very central in the next 10 years.
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- LONG LIVE AMIGA!!!!!!
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- The Amiga platform is not dead at all!!!!!!!!!
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- The Amiga platform lives in its best ever!!!!!!
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- Besides: IBM, Apple (Mac), Olivetti, ....have large economical problems
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- Amiga: Real multitasking, right character set, stability, multiplatform
- (Windows, Macintosh, NetBSD-Unix, X-Windows, PowerPC (Amiga, Mac, PC),
- ....
- Aminet servers around the World, the users, the OPPORTUNITIES, the
- prices, Home-market,
- TV/Video market, Little Memory usage, Program sizes,
- Speed: (Amiga 4000 33MHz 040 is as fast as a Quadra 840 AV 40MHz + 66MHz
- DSP)
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- Some good business software:
- * Cinema4D (http://www.hisoft.co.uk/cinema4d.html)
- * Real3D (http://www.realsoftint.com/r3d.htm)
- (http://www.realsoftint.com/gallery.htm)
- *
- * Videotoaster (http://www.newtek.com/product/toaster.html),
- * Lightwave (http://www.newtek.com/product/lightwave.html),
- ...from Newtek (http://www.newtek.com/high/)
- * ImageFX, ArtDepartmentProfessional-ADPro
- * Photogenics
- * Scala
- * Omnis in the future ?
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- HERE START THE REAL NEWS OR SHALL WE SAY HOT STUFF
- Some pictureres at: http://barbar.uib.no Amiga tower
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- Hardware:
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- Cybervision 64
- Cyberstorm 060
- Powerup 300 MHz PPC 620
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- The Pentium card:
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- PCI ISA architecture, compatible with PICMG standard,
- 132 MB/sec PCI-Bus transfer, Up to 4 extra Master PCI external cards,
- CPU: Pentium 75-166 MHz
- Cache Ram: 256Kb to 1MB,
- Ram: up to 128 MB
- Bios: 1x27C010 EPROM with Award BIOS,
- PC/104: 1 for PC/104 module
- Clock: Dallas/batterie,
- Storage: Floppy controller 2XFDD, IDE interface for 2 Harddisks
- Flash-ROM-Disk: 360 Kb Flash or 1.44 MB Eprom-Disk, bootable,
- Multi I/O Chip set: SMC-FDC-37C665 all I/O Setup in BIOS,
- 2 X RS-232 High-Speed 16C550 compatible (COM1, COM2)
- 1 X PS2 compatible Bi-Directional Paralell Port with EPP/ECP functions
- (MS-HP Mod.)
- WatchDog-Timer: 1-220 seconds.
- Mouse port: PS/2 or RS-232,
- Keyboard: PS/2
- The Shuttle: 2 x Vide Buses, 8 x ZorroIII buses(5 of them clean DMA), 6
- PC-ISA buses, EPS bus for 8 more ZorroIII buses.
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- Retailer:
- Eagle Computer Products
- Altenbergstrasse 7
- D-71549 Auenwald
- Germany
- Phone: Int. +49 (0) 7191-53773 / 59028 Telefax: Int. +49 (0)
- 7191-59057
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- The PowerPC module:
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- PPC603 and PPC604 from 100 MHz upwards, PPC620 up to 300 MHz (->700 MHz)
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- Retailer:
- phase 5 digital products
- In der Au 27
- D-61440 Oberusel
- Germany
- Phone: Int. +49 (0) 6171-583787 Telefax: Int. +49 (0) 6171-583789
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- And of course:
- * Games...too many to mention
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-
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- LONG LIVE AMIGA!!!!!!
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- --
- Escom is the new owner of the Commodore and Amiga product line.
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- http://www.escom.de/
- Siemens Nixdorf owns about 25 % of Escom
- The Quelle chain are also involved with Escom.
- IBM also have interests in Escom
- ......
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- AMIGA Technologies Virtual
- Products GmbH
- Berliner Ring 89 Berliner
- Ring 89
- D-64625 Bensheim D-64625
- Bensheim
- Germany Germany
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- Tel +49 6252 709 195 (Bourdin)
- Fax +49 6252 709 520
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- Some WWW links:
- <A HREF=http://www.escom.de/>Escom</A>
- <A HREF=http://www.amiga.de/>Amiga Technologies</A>
- <A HREF=http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html>The Amiga Web Directory</A>
- <A HREF=http://www.uib.no/it/pers/edorn/Amiga.html>Ronnys Amiga page</A>
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- Best regards
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- Ronny
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