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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AT Bridgeboard, '020 Status?
Message-ID: <2291@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 88 20:10:51 GMT
References: <2300009@hpsadla.HP>
Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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Posted: Fri Jun  3 16:10:51 1988

In article <2300009@hpsadla.HP> jimh@hpsadla.HP (Jim Horn) writes:
)     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?  CEBIT and COMDEX showings are nice, but what about how
)much and (more important!), when? 

I agree that this is what people really want to know ...

) There are a number of folks who are
) basing their future machine purchases on the results.

... and this is why you can't expect reliable answers from any 
company which presumes to tell you.  Anyway, you mention results, which
are typically independent of promises.

)[A 386 clone] machine *now* beats a '286 board `Real Soon Now'.

But think how you'd feel about a '286 board that is months overdue.'

Current management of Commodore USA tries, I believe, not to make a
"product announcement" until they are ready to ship, which I think
goes over better than Atari's approach (hook your cd-rom player up to
your laser printer via your Promised LAN).  I noticed CBM (-USA) took
great pains to term the Hannover stuff a "technology preview."

So, I dig your wanting to know (I do, too), but you can always expect
to be frustrated waiting for computer hardware.

Why don't you ask something technical, like how fast the A2620 is,
compared to Mac II running same benchmarks on same compiler (such
as greenhills/mpw or aztec)?

And how much will it cost?	;^)

And what will the discount for developers be?

)	Jim Horn

cheers, Jim.
	jimm

Go pistons.
-- 
	Jim Mackraz, I and I Computing	  
	amiga!jimm	BIX:jmackraz
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