Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!tahoma!hrsw2!bakken
From: bakken@hrsw2.UUCP (David E. Bakken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga futures
Message-ID: <42@hrsw2.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 17:00:21 GMT
References: <4342@ecsvax.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Commercial Aircraft Co., Seattle, Wa.
Lines: 24
Keywords: 68020, C3000, mixed cpu/system machines
Summary: 68020 Amy - PLEASE!

In article <4342@ecsvax.UUCP>, urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
> 
> Recently Dave Haynie posted that C= would RSN make a 68020 add-on
> board for the B2000. Seeing as this is a C= and not a third party
> development, it would seem that it wouldn't take much for them to
> replace the 68000 cpu section of the B2000 motherboard by the
> circuitry used on this 68020 board. So how soon can we expect it
> to be done and see a 68020 based Amiga?  For us consumers, this
> should be cheaper than having to buy a B2000 system + this add-on 
> cpu card.

Please, C=.  I think this will sell, and with the Mac II's '020 and
IBM's '386 machines C= may be at an advertising/sales/propaganda
disadvantage.  I got my hopes up that C= would offer this when
the rumor came across that C= would announce a new Amy in January.
But when C= (Dave Haynie, I think) commented on this I became pessimistic
(he said something like ask yourself if this can be done with add on cards,
and if so the rumor is probably false).  :-(.

-- 
Dave Bakken
Boeing Commercial Airplane Company
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