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From: huebner@aero.aero.org (Robert E. Huebner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: *** The New Amiga 3500 !!! ***
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Date: 14 Nov 90 16:20:55 GMT
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In article <6026@munnari.oz.au>, jimt@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Jim
Trivellas) writes:
|> 
|> 	I just obtained a copy of the November issue of the British Magazine
|> "AMIGA USER INTERNATIONAL", which has some information on the Amiga 3500
|> Workstation !!!
|> 
|> 	As far as I can tell, it has a 68030 @ 50Mhz, 68882, 5Mb RAM 
|> (expandable to 18Mb), a SCSI controller, an enhancer to produce
flicker-free 
|> output whilst in graphics mode, and other so called "standard features".
|> CBM will probably market it with Unix-V.4. The system comes in a Tower case
|> (the article has a picture of it), and it looks almost identical to an 
|> MS-DOS (yuk!) machine. Naturally CBM didn't comment on its price.
|> 
|> Has anyone seen the 3500 or heard anything about it?

I haven't heard about it before, but it sounds completely reasonable.  
Speaking with a Commodore Representative regarding purchase plans, he
stated that Commodore still considers the 2500/30 to be their "flagship" model,
until an A3000 architecture machine is developed with more expansion
slots.

I assume the 18Mb expansion you mention would be on-board, with actual
addressable space being the same as on the A3000 (ie: a LOT).  It does sound
like an idea platform for future UNIX applications, though.

Even if what AUI reported is only a rumour (and the British press if full of
them!), this IS the most likely "next step" from CBM.
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Robert Huebner		huebner@aerospace.aero.org
			The Aerospace Corporation
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BTW- What are these "standard features" you refer to.  So far, all the specs
sounds pretty "standard", with the notable exception of the 50Mhz clock 
speed.