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From: kim@mips.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Welcome!
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 05:14:46 EDT
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> Hi,
> 
>  net.micro.amiga is finally here. As a proud owner of a Commodore Amiga,
> I would like to open this newsgroup with an offer. I have now had a few 

I'm very happy to see net.micro.amiga appear, and since you've offered,
there *are* a few (thousand! :-)) questions I have:

1 - Can you give us your impressions of the "robustness" of the OS; how
    solid is it thusfar?

2 - I'd like to get an early machine so as to have the writeable "control"
    store, but I would want to be able to keep the OS up-to-date.  Do you
    have any information on the upgrade policy for "kickstartable" Amigas?
    And what about a possible conversion over to ROMs at a later date; has
    Commodore made any commitments?

3 - Can you elaborate on the memory map?  There are alot of areas marked
    "reserved" in the August Byte article; any info on their various
    functions?

4 - What s/w is available; I would be primarily interested in development
    s/w, initially?

5 - How good is the technical documentation, and in what depth?  Does it
    include schematics?  Is the bus well-defined?  Could I (for example)
    find out if the access time to the "control-store" RAMs is shorter
    that to the (future) ROMs?

6 - How good is the hi-res color monitor?  Dot pitch?  Crispness?  Any
    flicker in the 600x400 pixel mode?  Interlaced?

That should do to get the ball rolling, I think (and I didn't even ask how
you managed to get one so early ... hmmmm).

>  I am very excited about this machine, though most people won't be able
> to get their hands on one till the end of September, I hope to spread
> some of that enthusiasm around. I will try to answer questions with a

Shouldn't be too hard to spread around ... I think alot of us are just as
excited as you are (well, maybe not quite ... we don't have one yet :-))!

Thanx n advance,
/kim

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