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.....COMMODORE NEWS.......
For Immediate Release....
Expected Ship Date: July 1990
COMMODORE EXTENDS POPULAR AMIGA PRODUCT LINE
INTRODUCES TALENTED AMIGA 3000 AT "MULTIMEDIA LIVE"
NEW YORK, NY -- April 24, 1990 -- Commodore Business Machines
President Harold Copperman and his aggressive new management
team today dramatically defined multimedia as the company
introduced the latest in its popular line of Amiga personal
computers at a live multimedia demonstration at the Palladium.
The powerful and elegant new Amiga (R) 3000 brings enhanced
performance capabilities and a new AmigaDOS (tm) 2.0 to the
company's line of multimedia products.
"The 3000 marks the first step in our new Amiga product
marketing strategy and reinforces our serious bid to capture
greater market share within the business, government and higher
education markets," said Commodore Vice President of Marketing
C. Lloyd Mahaffey. "We've delivered an incredibly competitive
hardware system featuring lower cost, higher performance and
added communications capabilities."
Mahaffey said key product features include a 16 or 25 MHz, 68030
Motorola processor, a 68881 or 6882 math coprocessor, a true
32-bit architecture, 2 MB of memory standard (with an address
space of over one gigabyte) and, as in all Amigas, true
multitasking capability. The standard Amiga 3000 comes with a
40 MB hard drive and a 3.5 inch floppy disk drive and features a
SCSI interface for added communication capability. Commodore
also offers a 100 MB configuration.
Suggested retail price is $3,299 for the 16 Mhz version, $3,999
for the 25 Mhz version and $4,499 for the 100 MB version.
Shipments are expected to begin in July. Demonstration units
are available at participating Authorized Commodore Amiga
Reseller locations.
Commodore Director of Product Marketing Walt Simpson said the
price/performance of the A3000 results from the effective
integration of the Amiga's three custom chips with five new
custom gate arrays which serve a variety of functions including
bus arbitration, RAM memory handling, SCSI device handling and
video enhancing.
The Amiga 3000 also features a new operating system, AmigaDOS
2.0, which significantly enhances the look and functionality of
the platform, Simpson said. Besides the new look, standards
have been created for all system utilities, icons, requesters
and gadgets to permit ease-of-use by both users and programmers,
he said.
In addition, Commodore announced the inclusion of the ARexx (tm)
interprocess communication protocol and programming language.
The integration of ARexx into the AmigaDOS operating system
will facilitate the control of external programs from within any
application supporting ARexx, Simpson said. This feature,
coupled with Commodore's new AmigaVision (tm) authoring system,
creates a powerful multitasking environment for the creation of
multimedia presentations.
Along with the A3000 announcement, Commodore introduced a number
of strategic software and peripheral products including:
* AmigaVision authoring system;
* Networking products providing connectivity with Arcnet, Novell
(R) NetWare, Ethernet, TCP/IP and NFS standards;
* Monitors, including 2024 high resolution monochrome and 1950
color multiscan; and
* Commodore Amiga 10 Stereo Audio Compact Speakers.
Commodore further announced an AmigaDOS 2.0 enhancer kit for
A2000 series machines to be available in September.
Commodore Business Machines, Inc., based in West Chester, Pa.,
markets a complete line of personal computers and peripherals
for the business, education, government and consumer markets.
The multitasking Amiga (R) line includes the Commodore Amiga
2000 (tm), the Commodore Amiga 500 (tm) and two enhanced
products: the Commodore Amiga 2000HD (tm) and the Commodore
Amiga 2500/30 (tm). Commodore's line of MS-DOS (R)-compatible
computers includes the Select Edition (tm) and Professional
Series III (tm).
For more information on the Amiga 3000, contact Walt Simpson,
director of product marketing, Commodore Business Machines, 1200
Wilson Drive, West Chester, PA 19380 or call 215-431-9100.