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From: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac II, Amiga
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Date: 24 Mar 88 15:49:39 GMT
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In article <560@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> beowulf!lunge!jesup@steinmetz.UUCP writes:
>In article <8609@g.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>><edited severely>
>	Better get ready to make a quick turn around.  Commodore announced
>the Amiga 2500UX in Hannover last week, with 68020, 68881, 68851, 32-bit ram
>(I think 2-4 Meg), System V release 3 compatible, high-speed windowing
>system, and I think a non-interlaced version of the custom chips (no more
>flicker!)  I wouldn't be suprised if it supports the A2024 (the 'hedley'
>monitor - 1008x800 grey-scale, which should be out relatively soon).
						^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Relatively to what Randell ??? :-)

I wouldn't count on it - my information is that the 2024 is a ways
off. Commodore hasn't yet settled on the tube they're gonna use. The
prototypes have all been of the 13" or so flavor - they'd like to do a
16" (maybe Sony has something to help here), which would be a big win in
my book. Can't have less than that to do serious work at the higher
resolutions - it's the same size as the smallest monitor offered by Sun.

The new custom chips will not be available till 1.4 comes out since
they require new support in Intuition and the graphics library..

Personally, I don't know how smart it was for Commodore to make these
announcements. They're too full of confusing signals - when will they
learn not to say anything vague about upcoming products or products
that aren't yet available???

If the A2500 is just an A2000 with an A2620, A2090A and A2286, then
Irving should have explicitly said this at the press conference (all
my sources tell me that this is really the case). Even so, the whole
thing probably should have been done after the DevCon - the products
won't be shipping till well after it anyway.

>	I think (though I'm not sure) it is supposed to be out this year,
>with the 68030-based Amiga 3000 scheduled for 1989.
>
>>***  Sean Casey               sean@ms.uky.edu,  sean@ukma.bitnet
>
>     //	Randell Jesup			      Lunge Software Development
>    //	Dedicated Amiga Programmer            13 Frear Ave, Troy, NY 12180
> \\//	beowulf!lunge!jesup@steinmetz.UUCP    (518) 272-2942
>  \/    (uunet!steinmetz!beowulf!lunge!jesup) BIX: rjesup
>
>(-: The Few, The Proud, The Architects of the RPM40 40MIPS CMOS Micro :-)

Eric Lavitsky

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