Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!trantor!akk From: akk@trantor.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Andy Klingler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A4000,Lotus,Microsoft,UNIX-An interview with Helmut Jost-CBM Germany Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 90 22:51:40 GMT References: <3928@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Lines: 38 >In article <3928@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> ttavolij@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Thomas Tavoly) writes: > >Here follows a straight translation (without prior consent of the publisher :) >of an interview with Helmut Jost, the Managing Director of Commodore >Germany in the no. 1 german Amiga publication: Amiga Magazin of October '90. >(Which is IMHO the best in the world, much better than AmigaWorld; yes I >read them both, plus others) pages 10 and 11, BTW. Aaaargh! The Amiga Magazin the best in the world? I will not comment on this (I have seen the IMHO), but if you have read the article you should know that the publisher of the Amiga Magazin (Markt&Technik) does make some real big money with Amiga products (didn't want to say they are deeply involved, which should't be to make neutral journalism). I am not going to comment on the article either, but notice Mr. Jost is not a technician, so take the technical parts with a grain of salt. > >And some personal notes: > >Don't worry, the A500 will be supported more than enough by third party >developments if not by Commodore themselves. There have been ads for >example in some german magazines about Kickstart2.0/1.3/1.2 switch boards >for the A500. I guess, this would be a modified Kickstart, since some of >the hardware it expects is not available on the A500. So expect some >level of incompatibility. (Until some hardware hack will be released, >"the A500 rejuvenator" maybe? :) > Sorry. But you are clearly wrong here. The ADOS 2.0 does *not* expect *any* special hardware (well that's not true for the KS shipped with the A3000, but this has nothing to do with the new possibilities of 2.0). If you can get it into the right address space it does run even on a A500. -- Andreas Klingler akk@trantor.informatik.uni-erlangen.de A business is no business until you have shown the revenue office it was no business