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- From: normb@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Norman Baccari)
- Subject: BeBox Is Here. Listen Closely ESCOM
- Message-ID: <DL1Juq.17F@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca>
- Keywords: BeBox Amiga
- Organization: UTCC Public Access
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 23:56:50 GMT
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- I dont normally post stuff like this but I felt it worthy enough to do
- so. I have monitored several AMIGA newsgroups for numerous years and
- I have never heard mention of the "BeBox" until now. This machine
- looks like some very serious competion for the yet to be released
- PowerAMIGA. Below is a clip from the Be home site at
-
- http://www/be/com
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-
-
- A small extract from the Product Description...
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- The BeBox is the first true real-time, portable, object-oriented
- system that features multiple PowerPC processors, true preemptive
- multitasking, an integrated database, fast I/O, and a wide range of
- expansion options -- all at an extremely aggressive price that is well
- below that of any competitive offering. The hardware features two
- PowerPC 603 processors running at 66 MHz, room for 256 MB of RAM, and
- 16-bit CD-quality sound. It provides a broad spectrum of expansion
- and I/O options, including three expansion slots on the very fast (132
- MB/sec) PCI bus for high-speed add-on cards; five expansion slots on
- the ISA bus for low-cost, lower-bandwidth cards; four MIDI ports, a
- high-speed SCSI II port, and four serial ports. Be's system software
- is small, fast, and real-time. It provides multithreading,
- multitasking, and memory protection. On top of its proprietary
- kernel, Be has designed a graphics server that delivers
- ultra-responsive, continuously updated windows; a database server that
- supports live queries of user- or developer-defined collections of
- data; and a digital media toolkit that allows for manipulation of
- real-time streams of audio/video data. All of this is accessible from
- an object-oriented C++ application framework. Be also ships a
- graphical browser with every machine...
-
-
-
- A small extract from the Q&A Page...
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- Be Marketing Questions and Answers
-
- Version: This version of "Marketing Questions and Answers" was last
- modified on January 3, 1996.
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- Availability and Pricing
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- Q: When can I buy a BeBox?
- A: Be plans to make the BeBox available to the general public in the
- first quarter of 1996.
-
- Q: How much will it cost?
- A: Be has not set its final pricing for the initial BeBox
- configurations, partly because we expect component prices to continue
- to change (read "fall") prior to our release date. We have announced
- that we expect the pricing to be about $1,600 for a bare-bones
- (nonconfigured) system, and estimate that a configured system will be
- in the $2,500 range. We'll announce firm prices as the release date
- approaches.
-
-
- ...Hello...ESCOM ?
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- Norman Baccari | "OK team! You start coding.
- normb@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca | I'll go see what the user specs are."
- Toronto,Ontario,Canada |
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