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- This is some important news from the
- Computer'95 expo held in Cologne 10-12.11.95
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- 10.11.95
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- The future of the AMIGA or
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- some facts and news from the COMPUTER'95 expo held in Cologne 10-12.11.95.
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- New models :
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- First of all there will be enough new Amiga 1200 and - in the beginning of the
- comming year - Amiga 4000T, too.
- At the moment there are NO plans existing about new Amiga models to be developed,
- because A.T. has NOT the money to pay for new developments. First of all they want
- to have a look on the market in order to see, if the Amiga will be still accepted
- or not. Seems to be a dark future for our little silicon-girlfriend but hold on
- and go on reading about PPC support !!
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- AmigaOS 4.0 :
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- Yes, you read right! A.T. is planning to push up the existing OS 3.1 with some
- new features and of course bug-fixing.
- The A.T. employee told something about better support for graphic cards, faster
- OS routines and lotsa of new version of libs, datatypes etc. .
- Should be released somewhere around february '96.
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- PPC support :
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- Yes, yes !! When walking around the expo I noticed a little board inside a glass-
- box entitled as MC68030/PPC Hybridcard.
- Phase 5, the high quality german hardware wizards well known for products like
- Fastlane Z3, Cyberstorm, Cybervision etc., have already started developing a
- PowerPC-based processor-board to be released in the mid of 1996.
- Let me quote some parts from an info-sheet spread at Phase5 stall:
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- " The low cost PPC board will be shipped with a MPC603e 100++MHz cpu, the high end
- processor card will come with a MPC604 running at 100MHZ and - when available -
- even with higher speeds at 150++ MHz. Furthermore there are more powerful
- processors like the real 64-bit MCP620 running with 300MHz in development.
- Even 64-Bit memoryexpansioncards and a new 64-bit local bus-system with optional
- PCI-bridge should become reality on Amiga. The PPC card will first be available
- for A1200 - A3000 - A4000 with prices at 1000 german marks for the light and 2000,-
- german marks for the high-end version.
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- Furthermore Phase5 will rewrite the Amiga's execcore as PPC native code to gain
- maximum performance. CybergraphX will get add-ons for multimedia and other graphic-
- oriented applications. Furthermore softwaredevelopers should get the possibility
- to produce highquality software running on EVERY configuration.
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- There are already some well-known software companies asked to re-write their soft-
- ware for the PPC like Maxon, Almathera, ProDad or Softwood."
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- Ok, hope all of this will come true.
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- I still believe in this machine !
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- signed .... Prophet / Wizzcat ( ... still in business!!)
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