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- From: jamesm@nutmeg.it.ntu.edu.au (James McArthur)
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- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 02:05:16 GMT
- Organization: Northern Territory University
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- G'Day Neil Scott Nadelman, you wrote:
- : 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?
-
- EC030/40!! Bye bye A4000/030 ....
-
- : : 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? :)
-
- How about a colour LCD on it that has an animated boing! logo on 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?
-
- Decent Price?? Mate, I`m just going to buy one of those new machines if it
- is what it sounds like it is going to be..
-
- : : 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.
-
- Grab the pic of Aminet..
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- : Neil Nadelman-docsane@user1.channel1.com| The blood still pulses in my veins.
- : ----------------------------------------| The sun, still at its zenith.
- : I fear nothing in life because | And I... I, Antonius Block...
- : I've already survived Theta-G! | Am playing chess with Death.
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