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From: rodney@pyr.gatech.EDU (Rodney Ricks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rumor Time! (Interesting 68020 Amiga news)
Summary: Interesting A2620 info from INFO
Keywords: 68020 A2620 news A2500 A3000
Message-ID: <6998@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 3 Jan 89 06:58:20 GMT
References: <6183@louie.udel.EDU> <14406@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: rodney@pyr.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga.
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In article <14406@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>In article <6183@louie.udel.EDU> Tom Claydon: ASTLC@alaska.bitnet;, writes:
>|   OK, I know you can't believe everything you read, but....
>
> ...
>
>Let's forget about the A3000.  Buy an A2000 with an '020 and you'll be better
>off TODAY. All these articles are pure conjecture at this point.

Ok, here's something about the 2000 with '020 that isn't pure conjecture, but
to convince people to go ahead and get a 68020 system, instead of holding out
for a 3000.

The following comes from INFO magazine (#24 Jan/Feb 1988), and is taken
without permission (of course).


p. 81; INFO Visits Commodore

... assembly lines at the end of the building were putting together A2620
14.3 MHz 68020 Amiga coprocessor boards ... comes with 2 megs of 32-bit RAM,
with room on board for 4 ... can add a daughterboard for a total of 20 megs
of 32-bit RAM ...

Hmmm, 20 megabytes, THAT ought to be enough!!!  For awhile, at least...

(I think I remember hearing the above as a rumor on the net, but the article
seems to give it more factual support.)

What's that?  You say that 14.3 Mhz won't satisfy you?  How about this, from
a Comdex show report (p.38).

According to Dr. Rubin ... there is no A3000.
... running at 14.3 MHz ... the 2500 can be upgraded to run at a
blistering 25 MHz.


Now we'll be able to laugh at our Mac friends!  Whoops, sorry, I don't want
to start any more "my computer is better than yours" wars.

Besides, each side knows which computer is best!  :-)  (Theirs, of course.)

Seriously, when will we be able to see some benchmarks for these 25 MHz,
68020 systems?  Wouldn't it be funny if they (consistently) outpaced the
NeXT workstations?  (It may be feasible under AmigaDOS, since there should
be MUCH less overhead...)

>
>-- Marco Papa 'Doc'

Rodney Ricks

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