Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!ptsfa!lll-lcc!styx!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!violet.berkeley.edu!mwm From: mwm@violet.berkeley.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Comments on the A2000 Message-ID: <2677@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 00:45:43 EST Article-I.D.: jade.2677 Posted: Wed Mar 4 00:45:43 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 06:43:58 EST Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@violet.berkeley.edu(Mike Meyer) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 38 Well, I finally got a copy of a rag with articles on the A2000. I'm going to act as if the articles are descriptions of the "real thing," though we all know better. I just wanted to comment on a couple of things: 1) That keyboard: YUCH! Got half the problems of the vt200/ISO (I think it's an ISO standard, anyway) keyboard, without managing to follow that standard. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it: a keyboard that even people who like the vt200 keyboard would hate. Looks like the pencil-holder is gone, too. And it's not plug-compatable with the A1000 keyboard so I could keep using that on one. 2) Multi-processor, multi-tasking, multi-DOS. Gee, I'm starting to feel old. This is the third time I've seen someone announce a computer with the ability to plug in multiple CPUs, and run software from other systems. Wonder why you never hear anything about the first two, hmm? Of course, this is the first time the base system already had a user/software base. 3) The A1000 is "transportable." I could put it, an expansion box, the RF/composite video toys and all the disks I needed into a carrying bag, and carry the bag onto a plane. Then plug it into whatever TV or monitor I could get my hands on. No RF/composite on the A2000. To big to carry, too, I bet. 4) I don't seem to be able to count. :-) 5) I don't think I'm gonna upgrade to one. I don't need IBM-PC compatability. I don't really want lots of other cards - just a SCSI/one-serial-port card. And my memory card won't work in it.... Gee, I just had a disgusting thought: How about an A2000, with the A2088, and a PC/370 card in the IBM slots? A 68000 controlling an 8088 controlling a re-microcoded 68000 emulating an IBM 370. Just so I can run VM/CMS at home :-).