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- From: docsane@user1.channel1.com (Neil Scott Nadelman)
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- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
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- Date: 5 Mar 1996 16:11:27 GMT
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- Hywel Phillips (hywel@mozart.inet.co.th) wrote:
-
- : *Just* got this. Apologies if it is already on the ngs.
- : ------------------------------
- : AMIGA Technologies GmbH
- : with ESCOM at the CEBIT.
-
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- : A prototype of the new AMIGA will be shown for the first time worldwide at
- : the CEBIT fair in Hannover, Germany. AMIGA Technologies GmbH will hereby
- : expand the AMIGA product line for the advanced home user and the
- : semi-professional market. Modularity, futuristic design and expansion
- : capability are the main edges of the new product.
-
- We can only hope. Then again, this also similar to what was
- said about the Colecovision console back in 1983.
-
- : The motherboard features two SIMM sockets, on which the memory can be
- : increased up to 128 MB. The main processor used will be the 680EC30 / 40
- : MHz. This combination allows a product at a tight price with a good
- : computing power. With the available flexible expansion bus, turbo cards
- : with processors like the 68060 or the PowerPC will be easily installable.
-
- An EC030/40? Well, it IS better than a EC020/14, but still...
- Is that the best they can do? Is the 040 really still that expensive?
- I like the idea that we can finally use big SIMMs, but what's with this
- talk of "the expansion bus" in the singular?
-
- : This expansion bus can also be used with graphic-cards, multi-serial cards,
- : MPEG cards etc. The modular concept makes the addition of further slots
- : possible,
- : so that the user can define how many expansion slots he will have in his
- : machine. This way, the basic machine can be turned into a tower. This
- : design concept will be the base of the coming AMIGA-Generation.
-
- AHHHH! Hm, interesting. They may have cracked the whole low-end/
- high-end problem this way. Build a generic case and expand its expansion.
- Hope it looks cool. Maybe make it black? With big Amiga boing balls all
- over it? :)
-
- : The new AMIGA will be shipped with a revisited version 3.2 of the AMIGA-OS.
- : New features and many enhancements will give the system more power and
- : flexibility.
-
- Will we 3.0 users be able to buy it at a decent price?
-
- : The Power-PC project is also moving forward. Thanks to the close cooperation
- : with Motorola and Phase 5, the porting of the AMIGA-OS will be achieved
- : within the announced schedule. The first Power AMIGA will be available
- : early in 1997, as planned. Until then, it is also foreseeable that Phase 5
- : will release the first Power PC cards for existing AMIGAs. The development
- : of the OS is led by former top-AMIGA-engineers.
- Nice to hear, but I'll believe it when I see one.
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