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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIGA 2000 and IBM compatability
Message-ID: <8704011908.AA07171@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 14:08:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 14:08:19 1987
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>O.K. folks. This thursday IBM is going to announce its new PCs.
>According to all the rumours they will use a new proprietary
>buss, and none of the existing expansion boards will work in
>this new machine. Also at the same time or shortly later, IBM
>will be announcing a new operating system to go with these new
>machines. Of course the BIOS of the new machines will also
>be different.
>So where does this leave the AMIGA 2000, (and the new MAC ?)
>which have been making so much of their their IBM PC capabilities?

	It leaves the Amiga 2000 and the Mac II in the same place they were
before.  One might ask, "will IBM continue to support its PC line?".  This
is probable, but if IBM were to make the mistake of introducing something
completely incompatible, then *abandoning* its PC line, I think that everybody
would abandon IBM.  That is, the clone makers will continue to sell and
enhance the original design.

	So, working on the assumption that the original PC line, which has
a huge software and hardware base, will continue on, the Amiga 2000 has nothing
to worry about.


					-Matt