daly@hpdml93.HP.COM (John Daly) (07/29/89)
I've been out of touch with the happenings at Commodore lately, but
I have seen reference to an AMIGA 3000 on the net. Is this for real
or just another CBM hoax ? If it is could someone possibly give me
the nitty gritty's on speed, memory capacity, io, graphics, price
etc... Thanks in advance for the info
John Daly
daly@hpdml93UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (07/29/89)
In article <380031@hpdml93.HP.COM>, daly@hpdml93.HP.COM (John Daly) says: > > I've been out of touch with the happenings at Commodore lately, but > I have seen reference to an AMIGA 3000 on the net. Is this for real > or just another CBM hoax ? If it is could someone possibly give me According to Amiga Transactor, the Commodore has officially announced that the 3000 is being developed. This is *not* the same as announcing the machine itself. About all that C will say is that it will sport a 68030.
balzer@frambo.enet.dec.com (Christian Balzer) (08/01/89)
In article <380031@hpdml93.HP.COM>, daly@hpdml93.HP.COM (John Daly) writes... > > I've been out of touch with the happenings at Commodore lately, but > I have seen reference to an AMIGA 3000 on the net. Is this for real > or just another CBM hoax ? If it is could someone possibly give me > the nitty gritty's on speed, memory capacity, io, graphics, price > etc... Thanks in advance for the info Here we go again...Anybody out there who remembers the 1.3 "rumor wars"? Dear John and associated net.gossips, The A3000 will draw it's unmatched CPU power from a joint venture chip set design by Motorola and CBM, using RISC architecture and resulting in speeds well over 50 times faster than todays generation of Amigas. It will come with 16MB base memory (virtual, of course), feature 8 serial ports, 2 parallel, one onboard SCSI DMA host adapter with transfer speeds above 20 MB/s. The new graphic chips will support any resolution up to 4096 by 4096 with up to 2 million colors simultanously. Blits will be performed at over 15 million pixels/s. Price? Well that's a thoughie, my sources tell that the base machine with 400MB HD and medium (2048 by 2048) resolution color monitor will cost you about $5000. In case ANYBODY took this serious: ;-) :-D I'm pretty mad about the "CBM hoax" part. I can't recall a single OFFICIALLY announced Amiga product that didn't made to the dealers shelf. The AT bridgeboard and A2024 monitor were late, but they both made it. Wild and unsubstantiated speculations about Alpha releases of OS 1.4 and the A3000 will hurt us all, because they'll hurt CBM. Remember the recent posting about Apple "correcting" their statements about Version 7 of the Mac OS? Please note that I'm not a "blind" CBM follower, I had/have many arguments with CBM about various topics, but they've learned their lessons on when to announce a new product (official) quick and well. Enough of this, let's talk about CONSTRUCTIVE things. - <CB> P.S. This is your weekly reminder to set your distribution field to world. -- _ _ / / | \ \ <CB> aka Christian Balzer - The Software Brewery - < < |-< > UUCP : decwrl!frambo.dec.com!CB | E-Net: FRAMBO::BALZER \ \_ |_/ / I-Net: CB@frambo.dec.com -OR- CB@frambo.enet.dec.com ------------ PMail: Im Wingertsberg 45, D-6108 Weiterstadt, F.R.G.