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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: Amiga 3000
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Date: 19 Mar 90 23:00:07 GMT
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In article <12735@thorin.cs.unc.edu> tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell) writes:
>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.
>
	Yes, there was a lot of stuff going on at the Expo. It has
been my opinion that things will be out in a few months, but I have no
basis other than a compilation of all the other rumors I've heard. My
message was posted in "the heat of the moment" when I read someone's
comments that the 3000 would probably not be out before the end of
the year. If that's true he's the only one saying it.
	Gail hinted at a lot of things, as well as the fact that a
major company would start supporting the Amiga. She made that comment
after a story about Microsoft's Multimedia conference at which she
descreibed herself as "in the back room". Take that to mean what you
like, I've already made my conclusions %^>
	-- Ethan

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