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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 15 Mar 91 18:24:47 GMT
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In article <19885@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <19880@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>
>>In '89, a 68020 system.
>>In '90, a 68030 system.  In '91, the A3000, a fully 32 bit system (expansion
>>bus, memory, hard disk, etc).  Except for the Amiga chips, a completely new
>>architecture.  
>
>Doesn't this guy know anything?  The A2500/20 was out in '88, the A2500/30 in
>'89, and the A3000 in '91.  Maybe he was thinking of something else.  Probably
>beer....

	If I remember correctly, the A2000HD and A2500/20, along
with the AT BB, were released at AmiExpo NYC on March 3 of 1989.
I believe the 2500/30 came out in November of that year.

>-- 
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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>	"What works for me might work for you"	-Jimmy Buffett


	-- Ethan


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