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From: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What's in a name (and who is "Fang")?
Message-ID: <14580@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 17:34:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.14580
Posted: Fri Sep 18 17:34:01 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 05:03:24 EDT
References: <14218@amdahl.amdahl.com> <2336@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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Keywords: jumpers for 1 Meg of CHIP ram

In article <2336@cbmvax.UUCP>, higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom SALES) writes:
> In article <14218@amdahl.amdahl.com> I wrote:
> $I just received the July/August issue of Amiga Mail from CBM today...
> $there were some
> $references made to "B2000 Jumpers", "A2000/B2000 Keyboard Connector", and
> $"Schematics (A2000, B2000, A500)".
> $
> $OK, I'll byte ... what's a B2000?
> 
> The original Amiga 2000 designed in Germany and sold everywhere EXCEPT the
> U.S since the Spring was internally designated as the "A2000".  In the U.S,
> it was only shipped to developers, and to some sales reps for demonstration
> purposes.
> 
> The B2000 is the U.S designed and assembled Amiga 2000.  There are only
> small differences as far as most users are concerned.  The main difference
> is that the B2000 has 1Mb RAM on the motherboard, and the A2000 has 512K
> on the motherboard, and 512K on a card which is pre-installed into the CPU
> expansion slot.

So, the West Chester design is officially known as the B2000.  Aside from the
memory difference you noted above, my understanding is that the video slot
of the B2000 makes available the 12 raw RGB signals.  Is that correct?

And as to the jumpers mentioned in AmigaMail ... I recently heard the
following *rumor* from a "reliable source":

"The West Chester 2000 (B2000) has a jumper that will enable 1M of chip
memory.  There will be a new Agnes chip called Fang."
 
Sounds like this will a field upgrade option in the future.  Comments?

/kim


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