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 Lines: 38 ============================================================================ 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. ============================================================================ \===========================\ /===========================/ \ Sterling L. Brown........ \ / "When I'm Programming / \ \ / MSDOS, I'm thinking / \ Amiga Programmer \=============/ of Amiga."-I said it. / \ MSDOS Programmer / \================\ `The Human Opperating System' /================/ A // Serious \ CIS: 71101,616 /Multifinder.status= \\ // Amiga \ USENET: sterling@dasys1 / "don't make me laugh!"; \\/ Programmer \=========================/ OS2->bites=Amigas.Dust;