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From: skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: EXPLAIN DIFFERENT AMIGA MODELS
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.084906.1607@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 91 08:49:06 GMT
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In article <664@tnc.UUCP> m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT) writes:
>
>Ok, running from the top on down:
>
>The Amiga 3000 is the top of the line machine.  It is a 68030 (does it
>come with a 68882 as well? ... I think so) machine with a nice looking
>small footprint case and acceptable expansion options.  It comes in
>two clock speeds with several hard disk options.  Soon you should be
>able to get one with AT&T Unix SVR5 on it.  If you want to use the
>machine for serious work (or serious play ;) like ray-tracing or
>software development, this is the machine for you.  Get it if you can
>at all afford it.

	The Amiga 3000 comes with either a 16 or 25MHz 68030, a 68882
Numeric Coprocessor, a Memory Management Unit, an onboard display deinterlacer,
an SCSI-II controller, and at least two megs of 80ns rams (one meg of chip ram,
and one meg of fast ram), expandable to 16M on the motherboard using 1Mx4 zips.
The unit also contains a Quantum hard drive, usually a 50M or 100M drive (I
think).  Most importantly, it is shipped with the new version 2.0 of the
operating system (which is backwards compatable with older versions).
	The A3000 is available is several base configurations of ram and hard
drive sizes and is covered under the educational discount program.  See a
dealer near you for further information in these areas.

(I might add that I love mine!  :)
--

George L. Skank			|
skank@iastate.edu		|Fast cars, fast women, fast computers...
Senior, Electrical Engineering	|(not necessarily in that order)