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From: ford@kenobi.UUCP (Mike Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CEBIT Commodore Announcements (A2500, A3000)
Message-ID: <61@kenobi.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 88 22:00:32 GMT
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Summary: 2500UX will have competition from "below"
In-reply-to: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM's message of 24 Mar 88 22:36:43 GMT

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In article <46913@sun.uucp> cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:

> In article <1712@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes:
> ->   Arg Arg. $7500 ?? If this comes out in 4Q 88 they are going to 
> ->be competing with fast machines with bigger disks that are in the
> ->$4-5 range (no i can not mention a company). This is just too high.

> [Sounds like the mythical Next beast ^^^^]

If it's the same rumor I heard, this certain unmentionable company
will be offerring an upgrade for owners of its low-priced 68000
systems.  For about $4000 they give a 68020, 4 Meg ram, 200Meg disk,
graphics blitter, and a "Unix-like" operating system.

The "Unix-like" scares me off, so C=A doesn't have to worry about me
switching brands.  SysVr3 was a very good move, in my opinion.  But
"J. Random Consumer" doesn't know the difference, so I would be
worried about competition from the lower end.

I think C=A won't have any problems with performance comparisons,
though; I heard of some awful hardware kludges that will keep this
rumored machine from going very fast.  Probably only 16-bit memory,
for example.

All the above are rumors from unofficial sources, and should be duly
disregarded, as always.


I wish the A2500UX could run AmigaDOS at the same time, like the
bridgeboard allows.  Right now, I run AmigaDOS and always have a
window to a Unix machine.  The A2500UX should combine both these
functions into one box.

					-=] Ford [=-

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now it's a peaceful oasis.		ford%kenobi@crash.CTS.COM
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