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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: new amiga computers
Message-ID: <1438@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 04:50:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 19 04:50:30 1987
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Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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Keywords: 900 hires old

In article <24922@rochester.ARPA> mcinerny@rochester.UUCP (Michael McInerny) writes:
>
>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...?).

Coherent at first, we had SVr1 running a bit later on...

>     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!

Gee, a number of the C900 people are working on amiga stuff now...

>[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?]

Corporate priorities favored the Amiga, things got real tense financially and
the C900 and the LCD fell by the wayside while the Amiga squeaked through.

>-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 think the power comsumption of 1MB vs 256K chips varies.  The problem
is that none of the 1MB chips are very pin compatible with their 256K
counterparts.  Unless you made an adapter board, things would get very
messy.

BTW, get the Expansion Architecture document for schematics and discussion
of useful things like power allocations...
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)