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From: ttavolij@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Thomas Tavoly)
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Subject: Re: A4000,Lotus,Microsoft,UNIX-An interview with Helmut Jost-CBM Germany
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Date: 8 Oct 90 19:13:07 GMT
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akk@trantor.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Andy Klingler) 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).

Nice to know your opinion as well, it was meant as a personal opinion though,
shall we discuss this on e-mail?

>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.

Did you really think that Mr. Jost was going to make a fool out of himself
by talking about something he hasn't got the slightest idea of? He has
the whole technical staff behind him, to advise him on anything. Besides
there were no 'technical' subjects in the article. Unless...GULP, I just
swallowed a real sharp remark here..:)

>>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.

Right, you need an MMU to get it into the right address space, which the
A500 hasn't got. I should have mentioned that I was talking about the
present situation. 2.0 is not final yet. When it will be, all will be OK.
Until then, whoever wants 2.0 so badly has to install a hacked version
of 2.0 which needs the MMU, hence the hardware it expects. And if you'd
read the article, Jost said that the A500 may not be supplied with a new
OS. They are however probably going to release the upgrade kit for the A2000
in a way that it will be usable on the A500 too. (Like now with the fatter
Agnus: here it is, do whatever you want with it, but if you install it,
you'll void warranty)

>Andreas Klingler
>akk@trantor.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

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