Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!fauern!faui44!dkhusema From: dkhusema@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AT Bridgeboard, '020 Status? Message-ID: <346@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Date: 9 Jun 88 13:02:49 GMT References: <2300009@hpsadla.HP> Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, W-Germany Lines: 61 In article , Jim horn asks: > . . . . . > > A quick question: Does anybody have any news or serious insight as to > the availability of the 80286 Bridgeboard or the 68020 processor boards > from Commodore? Serious? Well - more or less. Depends on wether you'll count comp magazines as serious or not! > CEBIT and COMDEX showings are nice, but what about how > much and (more important!), when? There are a number of folks who are > basing their future machine purchases on the results - a `mere' Mylex '386 > machine *now* beats a '286 board `Real Soon Now'. > > Jim Horn > 1212 Valley House Drive {The World}!hplabs!hpspdla!hpsrla!jimh > Rohnert Park, CA 94928-4999 (707) 794-3130 I've been to the CeBit in Hannover, West Germany, and spoke with a salesperson from Commodore there. His info: ~ DM 5000 - 6000 (-> ~US$ 3000 - 3600 at DM 1.70/US$ 1.00) for the WHOLE machine (Amiga 2000 + 68020 + UNIX Sys V)! Sure sounded too good to be true ... In mid-May a popular German computer magazine did a pre-review on the Amiga 2000 w/ 68020 (in fact, they reviewed the AT and UNIX versions): The price was up to ~ DM 13000 (-> ~US$ 7700). Next - in the end of May - was another computer magazine doing also a pre-review, their price version: ~ DM 17000 (-> US$ 10000) All prices mentioned so far were for the UNIX version of the Amiga and included all components (Commodore supposedly thinks) necessary for work- ing with Sys V UNIX! The date for shipment reported by all sources of information was fall 1988. Dirk Husemann ------------------ Smile, tomorrow will be worse! ------------- Business: Dirk Husemann Home: Dirk Husemann Friedrich-Alexander University Aufsess-Str. 19 Erlangen-Nuremberg D-8520 Erlangen Comp.Science Dep. IMMD IV West Germany Martensstrasse 1 +49 9131 302036 D-8520 Erlangen West Germany +49 9131 867908 uucp: ...uunet!unido!fauern!faui10!dkhusema ------------------ Did I say smile? Forget it! ---------------- Disclaimer: The opinions, views, statements, ... expressed here are NOT those of the university nor of those of the student body as a whole. In fact, they're mine! ---------------------------------------------------------------