Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!LAVITSKY@RUTGERS.ARPA From: LAVITSKY@RUTGERS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Subject: Commodore's Lorraine Message-ID: <705@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 17:22:45 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.705 Posted: Tue Feb 19 17:22:45 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Feb-85 05:37:24 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 61 From: The.Uninformed Hello all, I'm just wondering about what happened at the recent Commodore show discussed on the board. How was it? Specifically, I'm looking for information about the new Amiga Lorraine. Was it on display? Could you use it, or was it kept under lock and key? In any case, all I've heard is rumors about what seems to be a great machine. Can anyone confirm or deny the following: 1) Turbo Pascal, built in. The Macintosh boards on the nets have busy with the fact that development of Turbo Pascal for the Macintosh has been put on a back burner in favor of the version for the Amiga. 2) 8 Mhz 68000 cpu with expansion slots able to handle 7 Meg. I know the 68000 can address much more, and 7 Meg is a lot of memory, but why stop there? 3) As for graphics and sound, I've heard 640x300 resolution with 4096(!) colors. Seperate rgb, composite video AND rf modulated signals. Also, there are supposed to be 256 sprites available. Could this mean a graphics coprocessor? For sound there are supposed to be 16 channels with stereo sound (could this mean 2 main sound outputs?). 4) Release date is purported to be sometime during the early bits of summer. The cost I last heard is under $700 with one disk drive. Is the drive a programmable format drive? - 3.5 inch??? 5) Finally, I understand that it will run under a Mac-like environment replete with mouse. This at least seems to be a good move, as I like the Mac's OS (I/O speed not inclusive). By this time, I'm sure all of you who have seen the Lorraine are screaming bloody murder about what I've said, but I have no other source of info except for the rumor mills. Please, I (and the rest of you I'm sure) would like to know what's happening with this machine. Even if the above rumors are just rumors, and if the Atari 'Jackintoshes' make the impact they're supposed to, it's going to be one hell of a summer for computers. One more thing for the rumour mill. I heard from a friend with sources inside AT&T that AT&T is trying to buy out Commodore. What gives? Did they really buy 5% of the stock already? Do they want it for the chip manufacturing facilities? ... Jonathan D. Trudel Trudel@ru-blue.arpa The above message is based on the confused ramblings of a poor and starving computer science student. Any interpretation of the above material as fact is left up to the opinion of the reader, and no responsibility lies with the author. -------