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From: pbrody@udenva.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: The Potential of the 2000
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Date: Sun, 22-Mar-87 19:40:43 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 22 19:40:43 1987
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The Amiga 2000 is a new computer with a lot of exciting potential. One area 
has particularly gotten my interest is in multi-processor/multi-tasking/multi-
OS. The 2000 is well suited to this and I hope that there are a number of
cards in development for the 2000. The things that I would particularly like
to see are the following:

	1) and 80286/80287 or 80386/80387 coprocessor card with MS-DOS
	2) a 68020/68881 or 68030/68882 coprocessor card which can be used
	   with AmigaDOS as well as Unix.
	3) A new video card supporting higher resoltion, and better animation.

I am not aware if any of the above possibilities are ready to be implemented
in the near future or are under development. If the 68020/68881 card comes for
less than $1000 then the Amiga 2000 could really have one-up on the MacIntosh
II.

Does anyone know what cards exactly are being developed for the 2000 ?
Does anyone know where Commodore-Amiga is headed in the future as far as new
products go, and maybe a bit of marketing (just possibly ?) ?
Finally, what improvements do the new custom Amiga chips have ?