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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 T is for TOWER
Keywords: TOWER,A3000,3000,T,NEW,computer
Message-ID: <21307@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 6 May 91 21:35:57 GMT
References: <1991May5.134321.25252@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Lines: 37

In article <1991May5.134321.25252@sugar.hackercorp.com> davidm@sugar.hackercorp.com (David Martin) writes:
>ALL:
>  Some one told me that they heard the A3000T would have 
>a 68000 switchable mode to make it backwards compatible
>with the A500,A1000,A2x00 series of Amigas. 

Some one has been smokin' some of that loco weed.  That's silly, not to 
mention impossible.  All correctly written AmigaOS programs have no problem 
with the A3000 or A3000T.  The few that don't work, if they haven't been 
upgraded by now, are probably not worth your time anyway (keep in mind, we have 
had 32 bit systems out since 1988).  A good portion of the compatibility 
problems people have run into on the A3000 have been due to 2.00, not the 
A3000 hardware, and most of those have been fixed by now, and should show up 
in the final 2.0x software release.  Most of these changes are apparently not
bug fixes, but magic tricks to get around bad programming practices in
applications.

>PS Dave Haynie are you out there? 

Yup.  Finished a deck last weekend and a chip today, so I get to read news for
a few minutes.

>Can you answer the upgrade question? 

No, that's a Sales and Marketing question, and as such, any answer is going to
vary by country anyway.  

>Does the A3000T have a new motherboard or just a larger back plane? 

Now that's a technical question.  The A3000T has a new motherboard.

>David W. Martin c/o The OpCode Factory tm Seabrook, Texas, USA

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