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From: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000
Summary: really: rumors from AmiExpo east coast
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Date: 19 Mar 90 18:35:22 GMT
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>	Wayne, this isn't directed particularly at you, but unless
>people are willing to put up evidence it is ridiculous to keep making
>claims about availability. I have heard all sorts of things. Some
>people say it probably won't be out next year, other's say that our
>favorite hacker Hazy has one on his desk and it'll be out at CeBit.
>Basically, if you are a developer you can't say anything and if you
>are Commodore you won't say anything. Everyone else is just guessing.
>Let's stop the guessing game which someone may accidentally take as
>fact!

The following aren't guesses, but things that reliable people said at
AmiEXPO in Washington D.C. this past weekend.

Gail Wellington, CBM special projects, said to expect at least four *BIG*
announcements from Commodore in the next few months.

The editor of Amazing Computing, (sorry, forget his name) said he did more
business after 6:00 pm (when the exhibit hall closed) running around looking
at all of the sneak previews in private rooms.  He also said to expect
a lot of exciting announcements fairly soon.

Jay Miner, father of the Amiga custom chips suspects (he is not under non-
disclosure and has no inside info) that Commodore is well along with a new
set of killer mutant ninja custom chips with features like 2 (easily) to 4
(just maybe) time the speed, 8+ bitplanes, and 6 bits/color (total 256K colors)
and possibily improvements to HAM mode to get all 256K colors on the screen
at once.
Jay also made either a simple mistake or freudian slip an said "Amgia 4000"
when he meant to say "Amiga 3000."  Now that's a rumor.

>	-- Ethan
>
>Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
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