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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 ?
Message-ID: <7707@well.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 88 09:40:10 GMT
References: <13509@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Quote: "The female, if she is so inclined, may latch on to his honker."

In article <13509@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>"... Commodore is expanding its Amiga line with three new versions including 
>the Amiga 3000, a 68030-based unit, which some sources believe will include an
>80386 processor.  [ ... ]
>The Amiga 3000 will offer 2 Mbytes of RAM, expandable to 16 Mbytes on the 
>motherboard using 1Mbyte SIMM chips, sources noted.  [ ... ]
>			  ^^^^^^^^^^
	Does anyone have any projections on what kind of volumes these chips
are available in now, and in the future?  Is it anticipated that there will
be enough of these out so that they will be cheap?

>In addition to the new 3.5-in. drive the Amiga 3000  will also sport up to
>three new resolution modes, which can be shown on the new $1,100 8608 color
>monitor.						   ^^^^^^

	Whoof!

	Actually, isn't this cheap for a 1K x 1K non-interlaced color
monitor?  In fact, isn't this *too* cheap?

>The new resolution modes are expected to include non-interlaced
>1024 by 1024 pixels with four colors, and interlaced 1024 by 1024 pixels
>with as many as 4,096 colors.
>
	Neat.  However, given that this will more or less directly compete
with the Mac IIx, will facilities be provided to expand the graphics
capabilities beyond this?  You can get 16M colors out of a Mac IIx by
dropping in the appropriate (expensive) display card, and ColorQuickDraw
will (or rather, purports to) support it.  Graphics expandability would be a
nice win.

	You're going to need $#!+loads of CHIP RAM, though....

>The Amiga 3000 [ ... ] is expected to be priced at 
>$3,600 without a monitor or hard drive; $3,900 with a 40-Mbyte hard disk and no
>monitor; and $5,000 with the 40-Mbyte hard disk and 8608 monitor".
>
>-- end of quote
>
>Count how many "sources say" and you get the picture that a lot of this might
>be just plain conjecture.  But then there's no fun without rumors :-)
>
	Well, *I'd* buy one.

NOTE TO C.A.T.S., AND ANYONE ELSE AT COMMODORE WHO'S LOOKING IN:

	You're going to need demos written for this puppy at some point.
Also, Onion running on a 1K x 1K monitor would be Real Neat.

	Yes, this is a hint.  It's also an open offer.  Please think about
it.  Thanks.

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