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From: fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A rough future for the Amiga??? I think not.
Message-ID: <134263@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 90 21:31:32 GMT
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In article <10715@cbmvax.commodore.com>, andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:
> In article <1990Apr8.013940.12984@wam.umd.edu> ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) writes:
> >use coprocessors to help relieve the main processor. No. The actual quote is
> >computers???  Nope, they don't.  The IIfx uses, I believe, two 6502 to
> 
> The Amiga 500, 1000 and 2000 each have a 6502 as well as a 68000.
> 
> (the A2500 has a 6502, a 68000, and a 68020  or 68030; however,
> since the 68000 and 68020/030 are not active at the same time)
> 
> To get a machine with two additional processors, we'd have to
> go back to the C128D, which its 6510, its Z80, and its 6502 running
> the disk drive.

Anyone remember the Ohio Scientific machines with three processors,
8080, 6800, 6502?  Cassette tape drives, etc.  (But remember the
prices...some things really have improved!)

They used to produce some (relatively) hot machines.  Wonder if they
worked?

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