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From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 buy-back & changing standards...
Message-ID: <1889@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 12:44:39 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 12:44:39 1987
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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acs@amdahl.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) wrote:
>What's bothering me ... is that I *think* that the peripheral
>market is gonna dry up on the 1000

Alas, this is probably the only real beef (keyboard layout and no
garage notwithstanding) that MOST people have with the 2000 ... the
periphs are not compatible with the A1000.

Perry stated some time ago on USENET that "the 2000-and-1 will ship
when the A2000 ships" so I assume it can't be too far off.  As long as
it's under $1000, you can have your A1000 cake AND eat A2000 cake too,
for less than upgrading your A1000 to a A2000.  And you don't have to
decide before November 30 or whenever CBM's special ends.

I assume that other vendors are looking into this potentially
lucrative market as well.

>The other thing that's bothering me is that I don't know *for sure*
>that Commodore will offer KS upgrades on floppy.

Even *I* can't believe that CBM would be so silly as to alienate all
their A1000 owners.  First of all, now that KS is in ROM, we won't see
upgrades with the speed that we saw v28->etc->1.0->1.1->1.2.  When
they do occur, we can always copy the ROM's to disk, no?  Maybe not
legally, but underhanded actions deserve underhanded responses.  Then
all we'd have to do is scrounge for documentation.

In any case, I don't think we should worry about KS.

..Bob

PS Kids, I don't condone doing anything that might be considered illegal.
-- 
Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.   page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}