Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!sterling
From: sterling@dasys1.UUCP (Sterling Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Vaporware Everywhere
Message-ID: <6044@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 19 Aug 88 04:25:08 GMT
Reply-To: sterling@dasys1.UUCP (Sterling Brown)
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
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          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?

          On a related subject, the August-88 issue of UnixWorld has  a news
     segment on  page 18.   It says in September Commodore plans to unveil a
     multiple operating system graphics  "personal workstation"  to complete
     with the  Next machine  and low-end  Sun Microsystem  workstations.  It
     also says that these 68020-based Amiga 2500 and 3000 machines will have
     a 40 MEG hard drive 3 MEGS of RAM, and will sell for around $6000.  And
     the operating systems will be: Amiga-DOS, AT&T System V Release  1, and
     MS-DOS, all using a proprietary windowing system.

          Lets just  see if  that is  true come  September.  I for one would
     really LIKE to see it but doubt that it will  come so  soon.  Commodore
     is still  working with  the operating  system(s).  If they have time to
     work on  1.3, 1.4  (simultaneously), and  spit out  new hardware, HEY!,
     MORE POWER  TO THEM!!   But  I hope  this is  not another Commodore 900
     story.
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