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From: marco@hprnd.HP.COM (Marco Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: the Amiga Alpha
Message-ID: <2550009@hprnd.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Aug 89 20:50:07 GMT
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>   A Super Duper Agnes capable of accessing 128K of chip ram
	128K of chip ram is just one fourth of the normal Agnus!
	IMHO I don't think this can be any true.

>    A 460 Mb harddrive (ability to virtual Agnes chip ram)
>    A read/write optical disk of about a Gig
	What would you need a hard disk of 460 MB when having
	one GB of mass storage like the optical disk???
>    A built in genlock
>    A built in 32 bit - 32 voice sound system
>    A built in 386/387 or eventual 486 option
>    A 68040
>    64 Mb of Chip Ram
	How come a "Super Duper Agnes capable of accessing 128K of chip RAM"
	will use 64Mb (Mega bits?) of chip RAM ??

>    512 Mb of Fast Ram
	Wow!, this is a serious memory. It will need a HUGE HUGE power supply
	to feed this beast, and a place to put 4096 (1Mb) DRAMS, not including
	the chip RAM!!

>    A Mac emulator option
	We already have that.

>    A Unix board
	The only type of UN*X I've used is SOFTWARE (or is that it also has
	an AmigaDOS board??).         ?B^)
>    A Mac, MS-DOS, Amiga internal drives

	I bet it will retail for about  $120,000 (about the price of the memory
	ALONE!) ?B^)

	I think you are right about your friend smoking something weird! B^)
	This is to much for a wish list, because even is such an AMIGA can be made,
	It won't be for the normal home user, and sure it won't be in most
	dealers' shelves.
	And judging for the obvious contradictions in his statements, there is
	no such Alpha or AMIGA 4000.


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