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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: CEBIT Commodore Announcements (A2500, A3000)
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Date: 20 Mar 88 18:30:29 GMT
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In article <10260005@eecs.nwu.edu> gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) writes:
>/ eecs.nwu.edu:comp.sys.amiga / papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) / 10:54 pm  Mar 17, 1988 /
>>AMIGA 2500AT will have the following specifications:
>>
>>		68020/68881
>>		286 Bridgeboard
>>		40 MG Autoboot harddrive
>
>Will the 2500 have a 32-bit bus?

I doubt.  As I understan it is the current version of the B2000, plus the
C-A 68020/68881 that has been floating at Commodore for quite a while, plus
the new Bridgeboard, with an Intel 80286 instead of the 8088 in the original
Bridgeboard.  As such it will probably be available as soon as those two boards
go into production, which could be any time soon (if they haven't already).

In fact the old Bridgeboard is almost impossible to obtain, that there are
rumors that it is no longer in production while CBM waits for the 286 version
to come out.

>What does "AT" in "2500AT" stand for?

The 286 BridgeCard is basically an IBM PC AT clone on a single board.

Some of this is my personal reading of the announcement, so take it with
a grain of salt.

-- Marco