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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Future models of Amiga
Message-ID: <530@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 12:51:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  5 12:51:51 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jun-86 07:46:11 EDT
References: <489@mips.UUCP> <322@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <207@neoucom.UUCP>
Reply-To: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Organization: 3Com Corp; Mountain View, CA
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In article <207@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>
>Hi Gang,
>
>	I was wondering if anybody has actually seem the ephemeral
>Commodore 900.  There was a tantalizing little bit aobut it in Byte
>magazine almost two years ago.  I've heard that it is avilable in
>Canada anr/or Europe.  The dealer where I got my Amiga claims that
>he actually saw a 900 at a Commodore marketing meeting.  He also
>gave me a glossy page that had a photo of the machine and official
>corporate logo.
>
>	Here's a brief synopsis of what is on the ad flyer:
>
>	The Commodore 900 has a Z8001 CPU with room for up to 2 meg
>on the motherboard and up to 16 meg total address space.  A 1.2 meg
>floppy is standard and either a 10-, 40-, or 67-, meg fixed disk
>is also included (depending on option).  Certain configurations
>include an RS-232C expansion board that can accomodate up to 8
>users.  A hardware MMU is included.
>	One version of the console screen goes up to 1024*800
>pixels with a 72MHz bandwidth (monochrome) monitor.
>	The operating system is "Coherent" which is the Mark
>Williams Unix work-alike that is supposed to be compatible with Sys
>III.
>

Kinda funny how CBM puts Unix on a machine that goes nowhere and puts
TRIPOS on the Amiga.  But on the other hand, it's kinda funny how Unix
seems to be the "kiss of death" to some machines.  Seems that such a 
cryptic and crude user interface (even on the AT&T7300) just doesn't cut
it in the business market (sorry matt :) - especially when 99% of all 
personal computers are much faster and responsive than something like a vax.
On the other hand, Unix would have brought a lot of ready-made software
(albeit cryptic software in a lot of cases), including (especially) UUCP and
access to world-wide mail (someone has UUCP for the IBM PC, so there is no
doubt the Amiga under AmigaDos could also do it).