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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: PVA2350?  Transputer?
Keywords: announced but never released
Message-ID: <21862@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 24 May 91 01:22:22 GMT
References: <8260@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <8260@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
>	Near the end of 1988, Commodore showed some new products at
>COMDEX.  This included the '286 Bridgeboard, the A590, and some other
>goodies.  Two of these, to my knowledge, were never released:
>
>	PVA2350:	"Professional Video Adapter"; a real-time frame
>			grabber, digitizer and genlock system.
>
>	Transputer:	Amiga Transputer Parallel Processing Workstation.
>			Uses Inmos T414 15 MHz, 32-bit processor....

	I was there (that was the last time they sent engineers to one of
those shows).  They were clearly labelled "Technology Previews", not products,
as was the A2410 and Unix.

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Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
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