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From: kzyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: *** The New Amiga 3500 !!! ***
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.235813.1040@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 90 03:58:12 GMT
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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?
>(How about a 4000 with a 68040 ???)

       Would be better design (I think) if the '030 + '882 are placed on a
daugther board emulating the '040. This would give us an simple upgrade path,
i.e., just replace the daugther board by a '040 chip.

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