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- From: mimetz@amiga.de (Michael Metz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Hooray for Amiga Tech.
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:18:37 GMT
- Organization: AMIGA Technologies GmbH
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- Ross Deeley <rossdee@inhb.co.nz> wrote:
-
- >On 14 Feb 1996, Jason Compton wrote:
-
- >> Paul Chan (paul) wrote:
- >>
- >> : >Except that it's been cancelled, to be replaced by something else which
- >> : >there will (according to my sources at AT) hopefully be a prototype of in
- >> : >March.
-
- >> : This is the first I`ve heard of this. However, if it is true, then AT have
- >> : meade a sensible move. From what I`ve heard of the A1200Plus, the price they
- >> : were quoting seemed to be too much again for what appeared to be an A1200 with
- >> : very minor modifications.
-
- Please don't primise too much.. it's a far way from today until
- the CeBIT fair.
-
- >> : Is this prototype going to be available by Xmas? If so, are they making it a
- >> : PPC machine?
- >>
- >> I would hope that it will be available by Christmas.
- >>
- >> AT themselves are unsure what the machine will wind up being, its design
- >> has been outsourced to another firm. From the best indications
- >> available, it will be a slot-box machine with AGA. No, not PowerPC, they
- >> wouldn't have a chance of being done by then, as they are only now having
- >> joint meetings with Motorola and Phase5.
-
- >So what guidelines did they pass on to this other firm, they must have
- >some idea.
-
- Yes, some =;-)
-
- >Will the slots be Z3 or PCI?
-
- nothing new... for now!
-
- >IMHO putting the guts of a 1200 (with faster CPU of course) on a
- >motherboard that can fit in a standard PC desktop case would be a good
- >idea...
-
- >And how come we haven't heard from someone at AT about this (Gilles Bourdin
- >doesn't seem to be doing much PR lately...)
-
- We do want information hiding as long as _everything_ is _very_
- unsure!
-
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