cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz) (03/26/90)
Hot off the wire... HANNOVER, WEST GERMANY, 1990 MAR 24 (NB) -- Despite much press attention, Commodore had no new products on show at Cebit '90. Instead, company representatives were busy showing the company's existing products, including the PC-40, 50 and 60 'III' series, and the Amiga 2500/30 system, first shown at Comdex Fall last November. Despite the no-show of the Amiga A3000, Amiga users expressed considerable interest in the A2500/30. Newsbytes understands from sources close to Commodore that the A3000 just missed out on Cebit and is, instead, now being readied for a 24 April launch at the Which Computer? Show in Birmingham, England. Commodore's delay in introducing the A3000 Amiga, due, company sources say to software problems, is in marked contrast to the introduction of the STe series from Atari last Autumn. The STe series had compatibility problems with the original ST series, resulting in Atari having to issue a software patch to allow many ST programs to load on the STe machine. One Commodore software developer told Newsbytes: "When the Amiga A3000 does appear, its software will be 100 percent stable. They're not going to repeat the Atari's experience with the STe machine." Chris ------------------------------+--------------------------- Chris Mauritz |Where there's a BEER, cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu |there's a plan. (c)All rights reserved. | Send flames to /dev/null |Need I say more? ------------------------------+---------------------------
pietrzak@king.CES.CWRU.Edu (John Pietrzak) (03/26/90)
In article <CMM.0.88.638385640.cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz) writes: >Hot off the wire... [ . . . ] >One Commodore software developer told Newsbytes: "When the Amiga >A3000 does appear, its software will be 100 percent stable. >They're not going to repeat the Atari's experience with the STe >machine." > > > >Chris > >------------------------------+--------------------------- >Chris Mauritz |Where there's a BEER, >cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu |there's a plan. >(c)All rights reserved. | >Send flames to /dev/null |Need I say more? >------------------------------+--------------------------- Seems kinda funny, remembering how the software issue was inverted from this when the Atari and Amiga first came out (many people became well acquainted with their guru). I'll be interested to see pure stable code on the first 3000! J P