Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <22178@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 5 Jun 91 18:26:10 GMT References: <5066@orbit.cts.com> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 59 In article <5066@orbit.cts.com> chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes: > >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 >think that C= would get on the ball. This is almost getting to be as bad >>as Steven Jobs' NeXT initial announcement. >> > >You really don't know what your talking about do you? It really steams me >when people flame CBM with rumors, incorect information, and inuendo. if you >had been paying ANY attention to these newsgroups, even if you had walked down >to your local dealer and asked some questions, or even if you had called cbm >and asked them (they have an 800 number for this sort of thing), you would >know that the 3000 never had either 2.0 or 1.3 roms. you would know that cbm >is STILL DEVELOPING 2.0, you would know that the ecs will be available (This seems an appropriate post to tag it to; since I agree with many of the points; but it could have some clarification) I'd like to clear something up. The A3000 was released with 2.0. It had an upgrade to 2.01. It had another upgrade to 2.02. Recently, it had an upgrade to 2.03. The next planned upgrade is 2.04. All of these releases are 2.0 releases. 2.0 has, in fact, been available on the A3000 for some time now. Each of the releases 2.0 has been better than the last, as well. Because of the nature of the A3000 and its peripheral universe (for instance, we know which SCSI controller most people have, we have an idea what their partitions are named, and there's no rom changing involved, so upgrades are fairly easy. Not so for your average A500 or A2000. Changing a rom is a big deal to most people. We wanted to make sure that when they upgraded that they would be happy for a year or two until the next major upgrade. It also doesn't stop with 2.04. We have future development plans past 2.04; work will continue on the OS. andy -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a popsicle." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.