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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 386's, TT's, a machine I want
Message-ID: <8359@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 89 18:40:20 GMT
References: <4840@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <4840@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) says:

>     Actually, I remember reading shortly before the 2500 came along that CBM had
> officially announced the 2500UX, which was basically to be a 2500 with 5 megs
> of memory, a larger HD, and a tape drive.  I know the 2500's have been in 
> developer's hands for a while.  

They did in fact announce a 2500UX at the same time the 2500 was introduced.  That
was at the '87 CeBit fair in Hannover, West Germany, and the first real showing of
UNIX on an Amiga, though that was an older version, and the A2500 hardware at that
point was still beta hardware.  The A2500 itself actually started shipping around a 
year ago, I don't recall if it was November or December.  UNIX has been in beta test
at various sites for at least that long.

> I think the major delay is inthe fact that CBM decided to change the hardware to 
> a 2000 with a 25MHz 030 board, and there was a lot of retesting & redesigning to do.

The '030 board work was actually started long before the A2500 actually shipped at all;
it was kind of a logical outgrowth of the A2620 board that powers the A2500 (the first
one was shown to developers at the Amiga DevCon in April of '88).  How they configure an 
A2500UX is pretty much up to the folks responsible for integrating the system -- they 
have the choice of CPU (14.2MHz '020 or 25MHz '030), hard disk, whatever.  Naturally the 
folks who are given the choice prefer the '030 system, but the bundle ultimately sold 
by Commodore comes down to a marketing decision more than anything.  They have to take
into account the price, competition, etc. as well as SPEED, which of course is what
REALLY matters.

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