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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.004200.3771@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 00:42:00 GMT
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In article <5202@dirac.physics.purdue.edu>, murphy@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (William J. Murphy) writes:
>In article <1991Jun03.053144.3208@ariel.unm.edu> nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes:
>>I would give it a little more time.  The Toaster just came out.  2.0 and
>>the ECS is about to come out.  And I'll bet it cost a lot of money to get
>
>I just don't get it.  I remember a year ago or so when the A3000 came out.
>Didn't it have both 2.0 and 1.3 ROMS?  Although 2.0 ROMs weren't finalized,
>Why has it taken C= a year to produce those chips for retrofit into A2000s and
>A500s?  Will the entire ECS be available for <A3000 machines?  You would
>think that C= would get on the ball.  This is almost getting to be as bad 
>as Steven Jobs' NeXT initial announcement.

   The A3000 still does not contain either the 2.0 or 1.3 ROMs.  The A3000
is still being shipped with a small (64K or something like that) boot 
ROM to load 1.3 or 2.0 from the hard disk.   The version of 2.0 being
shipped with the A3000 still has bugs, and Commodore is not quite ready
to put 2.0 into ROM.
   
>
>
>Bill Murphy
>murphy@physics.purdue.edu
>
>West Lafayette, IN:  Where progress takes a back seat to tradition.
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