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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

1270.0. "A2500, A3000 Announced in Europe" by NAC::PLOUFF (LANsman Wes) Thu Mar 24 1988 12:37

    Somewhere in the missing recent few days of Usenet news was a
    description of Commodore's new Amiga models, the 2500 and the 3000,
    announced at the Cebit Fair in Hannover, Germany.  From the replies to
    the original (missing) message, it appears that the 2500 is a 2000 with
    68020 and hard disk standard, possibly with some flavor of UNIX and 
    X Windows available, while the 3000 is a fancier machine still being
    designed. 
    
    But the original message never made it due to problems at ROLL::,
    the Usenet distribution node.
    
    Does anybody have the whole story?
    
    Curious,
    Wes

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1270.1	I got it, summarization follows..	MTBLUE::PFISTER_ROB	Steak knife, puta hole in my head	`Thu Mar 24 1988 16:03`	35
	Yes, I have a hard copy of that announcement. A friend of mine with USENET access through BITNET scooped it up. It was posted by Marco Papa of Felsina software. I dont know if any of it is true, but it sure is fun speculation! Robb summarization of Marco's posting.. ---------------------------------- AMIGA A2500AT 68020/68881 286 Bridgeboard 40M Autoboot HD AMIGA 2500UX 68020/68881 Autoboot HD (with 100M option) UNIX 5.3 compatible O/S AMIGA 3000 68030 based capable of 2.2 Gig of storage devices, and networking capability. Release slated for 1989 A2620 68020/6881/68851 co-processor for the A2000 A2024 high resolution grey scale monitor. A2300 A2000 Genlock A2286 80286 based Amiga bridgeboard transputer project Enhanced and Non-interlacing graphics chips for the A500 and A2000 where also announced.
1270.2	$$$	LEDS::ACCIARDI		`Thu Mar 24 1988 16:57`	5
	Well, that just about confirms my need to upgrade to an A2000. No non-interlaced Denise for the A1000... oh well, I just would have spent the money on food and shelter anyway. Ed.
1270.3	Transputer questions...	MERIDN::GERMAIN	Down to the Sea in Ships	`Thu Mar 31 1988 17:51`	19
	re: .1 What do mean when you say: "transputer project2"? Does that mean it comes with the offical INMOS tansputer? If so, is it a T414, ot T800? How much memory comes with the transputer? Is there a capability for more Transputers, on this board? On other cards? Thanks, Gregg
1270.4	that's a poser..	MTBLUE::PFISTER_ROB	Steak knife, puta hole in my head	`Thu Mar 31 1988 18:14`	9
	> What do mean when you say: > "transputer project2"? That had me curious too, I typed that part verbatim from Marco's posting, so your guess is as good as mine. Anyone got any good speculation? Robb
1270.5	Pc compatible card?	MERIDN::GERMAIN	Down to the Sea in Ships	`Thu Mar 31 1988 18:20`	7
	Robb, Well, they could be talking about plugging a PC transputer card (which already exists) into a backplane slot. Gregg
1270.6	If it's a new product....	16BITS::KRUGER		`Thu Mar 31 1988 19:24`	7
	VAPORWARE. Unless they're talking about an existing fece product, it's a good bet THEY don't know whether it will use an T800 or, for that matter, a T1600 ;-) dov
1270.7	it's probably an ibmpc product	BAGELS::BRANNON	Dave Brannon	`Fri Apr 01 1988 21:12`	11
	I suspect it is a real product, just not Commodore's product. "A2286 80286 based Amiga bridgeboard transputer project" From the wording of that... "project" sounds like the effort to get things like 80386 accellerator boards and yes, even transputer boards, from the ibmpc world to work with CBM's 80286 bridgeboard. Note there is no mention of a native amiga transputer board. -dave