DANLOY@POLYGRAF.BITNET (08/16/89)
I've heard from a friend (I think he's been smoking some chip dust),
about news of a Amiga Alpha (since he says, CBM cannot decide whether to
name it the 3000, 4000 (since it has a 68040 -- I tell him no way - but
he fights to the death on this point) or the Alpha.)
Now come his list of equipment: (Not a dream wish according to him)
A Super Duper Agnes capable of accessing 128K of chip ram
A 460 Mb harddrive (ability to virtual Agnes chip ram)
A read/write optical disk of about a Gig
A built in genlock
A built in 32 bit - 32 voice sound system
A built in 386/387 or eventual 486 option
A 68040
64 Mb of Chip Ram
512 Mb of Fast Ram
A Mac emulator option
A Unix board
A Mac, MS-DOS, Amiga internal drives
Now -- I disclaim all this information!
My friend will fight to the death that he has talked to a developer
and has seen demos (videos and tapes) of this new Amiga as a prototype
unvieling. Honestly - I think he's tripping.
The demos included -- Walt Disney, Ford and another company.
Ford and the other company (I forgot the name - it dealt with airplanes)
made one minute commercials for their company spotlighting the potential
of the new Amiga as they designed a prototype car or airplane in 5 days.
Then the tapes had superb digitized music where the Amiga sings.
I'm telling you - my friend has some delusions.
I want to know exactly how much bull is this guy eating from this
developer, or how much bull he's trying to shovel me, because he's
more a danger to himself than the Amiga community and I would like
to set this guy straight about obvious lying. So all you loyal
Amigans, I beseech thee for the correct information about the upcoming
Amiga 3000 for all of our sakes. Thank you.
Mitch Spinner (this is not my account, but send replies here anyway)
A public service message..
Disclaimer -- I make no claim that this information is based in realitykudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) (08/17/89)
In article <8556DANLOY@POLYGRAF> DANLOY@POLYGRAF.BITNET writes:
I've heard from a friend (I think he's been smoking some chip dust),
about news of a Amiga Alpha (since he says, CBM cannot decide whether to
name it the 3000, 4000 (since it has a 68040 -- I tell him no way - but
he fights to the death on this point) or the Alpha.)
Now come his list of equipment: (Not a dream wish according to him)
(ridiculously out-there description of Amiga Orgasm Machine deleted,
along with disclaimers every other line)
Well..... given enough money, anything is possible with Amiga. :) Even
this wet-dream machine. However, I wouldn't want an Agnes that only
accessed 128k of Chip RAM, myself.... :)
The bit about 512Mb of fast ram was just too funny....
In short, as far as I know, there's about to be an 030 based Amiga
3000. But, I'd prefer to let those who read all of this group every
day clue you in. That's all I know myself. In any case, thank you for
a very entertaining reminder of just how inspired Amigoids can get at
times. :)
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In article <8556DANLOY@POLYGRAF> DANLOY@POLYGRAF.BITNET writes: > I've heard from a friend >about news of a Amiga Alpha ... >name it the 3000, 4000 (since it has a 68040 -- I tell him no way - but > A read/write optical disk of about a Gig > A 68040 > 64 Mb of Chip Ram > 512 Mb of Fast Ram >... Oh my god. Didn't somebody post a JOKE to the net a few months ago describing a fake machine like this? Don't tell me someone took it seriously!? Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett, Systems Administrator barrett@cs.jhu.edu (128.220.13.4) | | Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 | | E-mail addresses: ARPANET: barrett@cs.jhu.edu | | BITNET: ins_adjb@jhuvms.bitnet | | UUCP: ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP noog | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////
marco@hprnd.HP.COM (Marco Gonzalez) (08/18/89)
> A Super Duper Agnes capable of accessing 128K of chip ram 128K of chip ram is just one fourth of the normal Agnus! IMHO I don't think this can be any true. > A 460 Mb harddrive (ability to virtual Agnes chip ram) > A read/write optical disk of about a Gig What would you need a hard disk of 460 MB when having one GB of mass storage like the optical disk??? > A built in genlock > A built in 32 bit - 32 voice sound system > A built in 386/387 or eventual 486 option > A 68040 > 64 Mb of Chip Ram How come a "Super Duper Agnes capable of accessing 128K of chip RAM" will use 64Mb (Mega bits?) of chip RAM ?? > 512 Mb of Fast Ram Wow!, this is a serious memory. It will need a HUGE HUGE power supply to feed this beast, and a place to put 4096 (1Mb) DRAMS, not including the chip RAM!! > A Mac emulator option We already have that. > A Unix board The only type of UN*X I've used is SOFTWARE (or is that it also has an AmigaDOS board??). ?B^) > A Mac, MS-DOS, Amiga internal drives I bet it will retail for about $120,000 (about the price of the memory ALONE!) ?B^) I think you are right about your friend smoking something weird! B^) This is to much for a wish list, because even is such an AMIGA can be made, It won't be for the normal home user, and sure it won't be in most dealers' shelves. And judging for the obvious contradictions in his statements, there is no such Alpha or AMIGA 4000. ------------ My opinions in NO WAY reflect those of H.P.