Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!amdahl!pyramid!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:Vaporware Everywhere
Message-ID: <2064.AA2064@heimat>
Date: 21 Aug 88 13:18:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <6044@dasys1.UUCP>, sterling@dasys1.UUCP (Sterling Brown) writes:

>          I was flipping through an issue of BYTE magazine (year 84 I think)
>     a few days ago and saw an article about a commodore 900  machine.  This
>     machine was  supposed to run a UNIX compatible operating system using a
>     Z800 CPU.  When I saw this I was really surprised.  This machine looked
>     remarkably  like  an  amiga  2000  (colors and everything!).  What ever
>     happened to this machine?  Does anybody know?  And if Commodore already
>     had that  body design in 1984 why couldn't they put the Amiga 1000 into
>     it in the first place?

  The Commodore 900 ran Coherent (a Mark Williams Co. product) and it did use
  a Z800 cpu. As for looking like a 2000, I never really thought about it but
  yea I guess it kinda did. The machine was designed and a few were even built.
  Operating systems were installed and everything looked like a go - then CBM
  decided not to produce & market it. Why? I could never get a real answer.

> \ Sterling L. Brown........ \                 /  "When I'm Programming    /

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