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From: evtracy@sdrc.UUCP (Tracy Schuhwerk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000's Shipping!
Message-ID: <1473@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 90 12:49:37 GMT
References: <12961@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati
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From article <12961@cbmvax.commodore.com>, by daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie):
>   [ Information on possable compatability problems etc. removed...
         Thanks Dave! ]

> As for software compatibility issues, there's 2.0 vs. 1.3.  I've found 2.0
> pretty solid lately, bus as mentioned in these parts before, the version
> shipping with the 3000 is a solid but not necessarily final release.  Problems
> under 2.0 that go away when you boot the machine under 1.3 are what you call
> software compatibility problems.  Without knowledge of what's going on inside,
> it's impossible to say whether it's a bug in the application or in 2.0.  If
> it is a 2.0 bug, you'll find the justification for the first 3000s being
> upgradable via floppy.  If an application bug, you should hear from the
> vendor; you all sent in those registration cards, right?
 
  I agree with Dave that 2.0 seems very solid!  I've been running a lot of
  OLD software through the paces (stuff that I would expect to conform to
  the rules the least) and have only crashed 2.0 maybe 3 times.  I don't
  think I've used 1.3 more than a couple of times (SID and 2.0 don't get
  along, and I needed to have an easy quick way to copy loads of stuff to
  the hard drive... selectively).  I am not very concerned with games not
  running on that machine (older ones that is... I kept my A1000 for that
  purpose).  I would like to say that Sculpt-Animate 4D SCREAMS on the
  A3000!  We ran SA4D on a 3 Meg 2000 and now on the 3000... The render
  times are much faster!!!  PageStream also runs like a champ!  I have
  installed my Lattice C 5.0 on it and compiles some small programs and
  it too is blindingly fast!
 
  Kudos to the crew at Commodore!  I think the 3000 is going to go a long
  way toward making the Amiga a more powerful force in the PC market!  
  Again, Thanks Dave!
 
  P.S.:  The day after I left the message about getting the defective 
         3000, Rick Sterling from Commodore called me at work to get
         some information on the defective unit!  Talk about Customer
         Service!  That makes a guy feel really good about the purchase
         he just made!!!  Thanks Rick!  

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