Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!udccvax1!don From: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Amiga rumor control Message-ID: <4174@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Date: 16 Aug 89 03:17:27 GMT References: <10727@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <7360@microsoft.UUCP> <89227.105540UH2@PSUVM> <30761@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Reply-To: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) Distribution: na Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 40 In article <30761@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> jac@muslix.UUCP (James Crotinger) writes: >In article <89227.105540UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes: >>In article <7360@microsoft.UUCP>, t-jondu@microsoft.UUCP (Jonathan Dubman) says: >>>Rumor has it an Amiga 3000 with 68030 will be available very soon... >> I doubt it will appear until next year. I beleive it will need some of the new graphics libraries available in v1.4 of the OS, which is in alpha (possibly beta?) testing now. I'd say maybe first quarter of next year (a rather uneducated guess, I'll admit, but CBM isn't talking...) >>Commodore has a 68030 based speedup board it calls the A2630, but no current >>announced Amiga 3000 model. Amounts to the same thing. >> > > Not quite true. Commodore *has* announced an A3000 machine, and it is >not at all clear that it will have anything to do with the soon to >be released A2630 card (rumors seem to indicate that the A3000 will >have that '030 on the motherboard, but these are rumors...). > I don't think they've "Officially Announced" the A3000....they've just "Officially Announced" that it will be '030 based (they've announced what their unnanounced product will have when it's announced? 8) The 2630 (25 MHz '030, 68882, some memory) should be around very soon. It's been shipping in Europe for several months (apparently). The 2500UX should also show up shortly. It's sort of '030 based... a stock a2000 (68000) w/ the 2630, a 100 meg 19ms HD, 150 meg tape drive, & some version of Unix (not sure which one). Commodore's even (finally!) prepairing networking products for the amiga (arcnet cards, Novell software), so that you CAN network 'em to NeXT's & other workstation-type units, as somebody mentioned a message or two back, without having to buy a $900 ameristar ethernet card. Gee, maybe I shoulda posted this on Comp.sys.amiga..... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- Don Lloyd El Campeador don@vax1.acs.udel.edu | | |Gibberish is | DISCLAIMER: don@pyr1.acs.udel.edu | | |spoken here. | My employers are idiots. They wouldn't understand | | --------------- my babbling even if they WERE literate enough to read it. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------