Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!ogicse!pdxgate!parsely!percy!cryo!billc From: billc@cryo.UUCP (William J. Coldwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Anyone actually own an 040 Amiga? (YES!) Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 09:47:28 GMT References: <9067@crash.cts.com> Organization: Cryogenic Software Lines: 31 In article <9067@crash.cts.com> uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes: >[] >Progressive Peripherals is closer than others, as far as I can tell, >and theirs is due out in July. 040's are easy to get now, that is not >the problem, at least according to them and Motorola. Better watch for marketing hype here. Motorola hasn't even gone to XC yet. The errata for the 040 is still over two pages, and the boards that will ship early will either have pre-XC or XC's with hardware and software kludges around the errata. As for PP&S being "closer", that is plainly debateable ;-). CSA has been a Motorola VAR for many years, and PP&S hasn't - guess who can get chips? >I think cost for theirs is $1000.00 retail That's most likely for the A2000 version without the RT compression chip. The A3000 should be more than that. >-Roger GVP, CBM, RCS, and Supra are the other developers that I know/heard who are working on 040 boards. CSA, PP&S, GVP and CBM _will_ come out with the boards. The others - well, we'll wait and see. -- +------+ William J. Coldwell Amiga Attitude Adjuster Cryogenic Software /|3DPRO/| PLink: CRYO, BIX: wjcoldwell, UUCP:...tektronix!percy!cryo!billc +-|-^--+ | NAG-BBS: 503/656-7393, NES-BBX: 503/640-9337, Work: 503/254-8147 | +-V--|-+ // Sometimes you gotta be cool to be hot: I'm a 3-DPro Tracer. |/ 040 |/ \X/ Amiga Call 1-800-3Dis4me (so good you can't imagine it). +------+ STD_DSCLMR "All opinions above are mine, and you can't have them."