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From: 451061%UOTTAWA.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga 3000
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Date: 27 Aug 89 20:34:42 GMT
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Since so many people are raving about the fictional Amiga 3000, let me do
so too. What follows is my guesstimate of what is coming, from my knowledge
of the Amiga's architecture, random ramblings on the net and my shiny iron
ring.

Disclaimer: I did not have any contact with any of the Commodore Engineering
            people, and in fact, all my mail to Dave Haynie has never been
            replied to.  :-(  So take this for what it's worth.

It will have a 68030 running at 25 MHz along with a 68882 FFP running at other
speeds up to 33 MHz. (for now) Asynchronous design. Comes with standard 4 Megs
of 32-bit memory, expandable on board to 8 Megs. This is gonna be a real Unix
work station, so it'll a big hard drive, like 300 Megs. Perhaps optical like
on the previous NeXt. And a tape drive will be there too.

Graphics chips? Yup, like ususal. No extra features for now, but they will have
a 32-bit bus. No extra colours, no extra display modes. Just the usual ECS
features.

Monitor? The usual. The Moniterm A2024 will be demoed, but the classical
A1080 will do. No surprises here.

Slotimos? Heh, of course. The new Zorro III 32-bit slots. Five of them. But
these will be rather neat. They will actually be divided in two. The 16-bit
Zorro II card will still fit in, just like on the I*M AT machines.

Standard SCSI interface on board? Well, if SCSI can transfer 32 bits at a time,
yes. Otherwise a simple 2090 will plug into one of the Zorro III slots. That
will allow you to plug in an ESDI interface later on. Ethernet, slim, thick
and of course, obese. Though the new obese Ethernet plug will be names Super
Ethernet instead by one of the marketroids.  :-)

Case? Nope, no computer-aided-software-engineering package included.  :-)
Instead you'll get a nice tower case, shaped in the form of the United Nations
building in New York.

Availablility? December 89! Yup, its that close. Will come with OS 1.4 and
a virtual memory handler, though no memory protection will be provided. Oh
yes, I almost forgot to mention, it will also have Unix coming with it. V5.3,
no BSD extensions. X-Windows and a proprietary window manager included too.

Price? Heh. Only $7000. Cash, Visa and Master-Card accepted.

So, how close do I come to reality?

Valentin
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