Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.hardware:2785 comp.sys.amiga.tech:13621 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!isis!nyx!bscott From: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Some questions Summary: But HOW!?!? Keywords: OS 2.0, Fatter Agnus, GVP Message-ID: <1705@nyx.UUCP> Date: 28 Jul 90 20:19:50 GMT References: <428@spader.UUCP> <139323@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) Organization: Public Access Unix - University of Denver Lines: 38 In article <139323@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes: >In article <428@spader.UUCP> root@spader.UUCP (Admin) writes: >> - Is AmigaDos 2.0 released ? >For the 3000, yes. For the other models, No. Commodore says "September for >the 2000", no word on when for the 500. [...] >Probably, but nothing in life is certain. If you have a 500, 2.0 may be >a bit far off in the future. I'm still trying to figure out how they're going to produce different upgrade packages for the 500 and 2000... ASSUMING they will try. I had a discussion about this with someone at Commodore here a while back (I forget who by now) and they said, in the understandable-but-nevertheless -annoying bet-hedging manner that they probably couldn't make machine- specific upgrades. What I think is really the case is that the marketing department just didn't want to talk about 500s, but that September will be the date for the upgrade packages for all Amigas <> 1000... I mean, after all, the 500 and 2000 are going to use the same ROMs, same Denise, same software... and I'd guess the Agnus would be sold separately due to the fact that there are many Amigas which already have it and many which don't. And so far as I have been told, even if they TRIED, there is no reliable way to tell a 500 from a 2000 from software. Comments? Speculation? Hints? Gossip? Recipes? News? Tall tales? Second opinions? Deep dark secrets? Quotes? Pet peeves? Surrender terms? Confessions? Diatribes? Jokes? Greetings? Declarations of Independance? . <<<>>> -- .---------------------------------------------------------------------------. |Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver| |Amiga UUCP node domain: bscott@vila.denver.co.us Else: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu| |FIDO point address 1:104/421.2, or call the Arvada 68K BBS at (303)424-9831| |"Don't embarrass us..." "Have I ever?" - Buckaroo Banzai | *AMIGA POWER* | `---------------------------------------------------------------------------'