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- From: mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 03:14:29 GMT
- Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
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- hywel@mozart.inet.co.th (Hywel Phillips) writes:
-
-
- >*Just* got this. Apologies if it is already on the ngs.
- >------------------------------
- >AMIGA Technologies GmbH
- >with ESCOM at the CEBIT.
-
-
- >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.
-
- >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.
-
- "advanced home user and the semi-professional market"
- "The main processor used will be the 680EC30 / 40MHz."
-
- *snicker* *laugh*
- Oh, that's a good one.
- This IS a joke, yes? Either that, or Escom is.
-
- Even a full-blown 68030 is a incredibly slow by today's standards.
- If Escom is actually foolish enough to release a new machine that's not
- running at least an '060 (which is still slow) they're doomed.
-
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