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From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.042427.19036@javelin.sim.es.com>
Date: 4 Jun 91 04:24:27 GMT
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In article <1991Jun4.004200.3771@news.iastate.edu>, taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
> 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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I've just started using an X windows mail reader and found a KILL AUTHOR
button. Good-bye Marc.

David

David Ingebretsen
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