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- From: mjp3783@alpha.isc.rit.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Ideas
- Date: 6 Jan 1996 17:10:51 GMT
- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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- >"if Commodore had a bit more fore-sight..." Sorry, Mike. Don't mean to pick
- >on you, but it gets tiresome reading the same old half-truths over, and over,
- >and over, and over, and over, and over, and...
- >
- >In Fall 1991, Dave Haynie showed the A3000+ to the developers at the Denver
- >DevCon. It had a 68030, AA chipset, DSP, room for 16Megs of CHIP RAM and 16
- >Megs of FAST, all on the motherboard. It was supposed to be released in
- >Spring 1992, and would be sold both as a whole new computer, and as a
- >motherboard swap for current A3000 owners. The A3000+ was supposed to sell
- >for about the same as the A3000.
- >
- >Then, before the end of 1991, Mehdi Ali brought in his new, hand-picked, Head
- >of Engineering, Bill Sydnes (of PCjr fame - remember the "chiclet" keyboard?).
- >
- >Bill promptly put the A3000+ project "on hold," and had the engineers work on
- >the wonderful new A600 instead, followed by the A4000...
- >
- >Hopefully, AT won't hire Mehdi Ali *or* Bill Sydnes, and we really will get a
- >PPC machine in '97.
-
- Agreed! And thank you for a *FACTUAL* bit of reality after so much speculation
- and "they shoulda's"...
-
-
- >
- >--
- >Jim Cooper | World: jamie@interpath.com | "I-Net 225 is my life... or at
- > | BIX: jcooper | least it seems like it!" :-)
- >
- >Definition of Perfection: Dysfunctionally Challenged.
-