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- From: amigo@vaughn.com (Jose Alvarez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 18:44:01 -0700
- Organization: Vaughn Communications, Inc.
- Sender: root@primenet.com
- Message-ID: <amigo-0503961947220001@ip164.msp.primenet.com>
- References: <2937.6638T1404T1877@mozart.inet.co.th>
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- In article <2937.6638T1404T1877@mozart.inet.co.th>,
- hywel@mozart.inet.co.th (Hywel Phillips) wrote:
-
- > *Just* got this. Apologies if it is already on the ngs.
-
- No apologies needed! :)
-
- > 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.
-
- Very interesting, but no mention of the actual chassis design... I hope
- is not the regular old A1200 design. Something more atractive/versatile
- would be a welcome addition.
-
-
- > 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.
-
- Also very interesting! Anybody on the know about how PCI will be
- integrated into/along with the current bus speak up please! :) We're
- hungry for info! :)
-
-
- > 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.
-
- Great! I didn't expect any OS upgrades until 4.x/PPC. I guess AT is
- realy hard at work on the Amiga after all. :)
-
-
- > 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.
-
- Glad to see they (AT) are on schedule for the PPC release. Those
- "former top-AMIGA-engineers" don't just happen to work for SCALA, do they?
- :)
-