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From: mcinerny@rochester.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: new amiga computers
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Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 08:25:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 17 08:25:19 1987
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Reply-To: mcinerny@rochester.UUCP (Michael McInerny)
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Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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Keywords: 900 hires old
Summary: Other C-Computers


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Does anyone remember the Commodore 900?  I remember an aanouncement
in BYTE's What's New ages ago.  It was a Z8000 (Commodore bought
production rights to the chip ;-) based system that ran a UNIX-compatible
system (Which one?  Wasn't Xenix, or Venix, but...?).  It could support
up to 8 terminals, had a hard drive, and boasted UUCP.  It was avaiable
only in Europe and looked like an AT-Killer (even looked like an
AT).  The most interesting feature was that you could get an optional
graphics package that included a hires, B&W 15" display driven by
a custom blitter that did 1024x800 and windows!  Never did ever see
such a machine....

[Aside:  I did see and play with a P128 and B256, but never a BX258, before
they were shelved.  Whatever happened to the "lap-top-64" with the LCD
screen?]

-Michael

P.S.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't 1Mx1 chips use less power
than 256Kx1 chips?  In any case, is there any way of replacing
(can you say "adapter board" or "bend the address pin out"?) the
256Kx1 chips on the motherboard and/or 256K expansion ram to get
1-2Megs inside the Amiga w/o power consumption hassles?  I'm quite
used to memory hacks:  I did my own 4-8-16K [16K!  Geez!  What are
you going to DO with all that memory?] expansion on my OSI C-1P, and
upgraded my ex-Mac to 512K.