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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Some questions
Keywords: OS 2.0, Fatter Agnus, GVP
Message-ID: <5970@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 31 Jul 90 17:05:49 GMT
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>In article <5962@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) writes:
>>	YES, there is going to be an A500 upgrade to 2.0.  NO, the release
>>date has not been announced yet by the Marketing people.  This has been
>>posted several times by CBM people.

In article <34722@ut-emx.UUCP> greg@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes:
>I'm amazed that you have information that the people at CBM don't.  How _do_
>you perform such miracles??

	By reading comp.sys.amiga, buddy.  Here are two little tidbits for
you.  Remember the press release posted by Commodore?

:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE         EXPECTED SHIP DATE: JULY 1990
:
:
:       COMMODORE EXTENDS POPULAR AMIGA PRODUCT LINE;
:    INTRODUCES TALENTED AMIGA 3000 AT "MULTIMEDIA LIVE"
:
: <blah blah blah...>
:
:Availability of a 2.0 enhancer kit for A500 series machines
:will be announced at a future date.

	Now, this doesn't strictly say that there WILL be such an enhancer...
but if you were Commodore, would you put the above sentence in print and
then NOT deliver one?

	But there's more, from BIX.  You can find a transcript in
/amiga/a3000 by anonymous ftp from abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov (the new "xanth").
Andy Finkel of Commodore said:

:[_andy_]* availability for the A2000 and the A500 is a marketing question
:which we can't answer.  It will definitely happen, though.

	Finally, I have definitely read exasperated postings by some CBM
people saying "Will everybody please stop spreading the rumor that there
will be no A500 upgrade???  There WILL be one!  Be patient!"  I have read
at least two of these in the last few months; sorry I didn't save the
articles.

	If you care to continue discussing this, let's move it to private
e-mail.  My address is below.

                                                        Dan

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