Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!polygraf.bitnet!danloy From: DANLOY@POLYGRAF.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: the Amiga Alpha Message-ID: <8556DANLOY@POLYGRAF> Date: 16 Aug 89 16:27:49 GMT Organization: Polytechnic University Computing Center Lines: 41 I've heard from a friend (I think he's been smoking some chip dust), about news of a Amiga Alpha (since he says, CBM cannot decide whether to name it the 3000, 4000 (since it has a 68040 -- I tell him no way - but he fights to the death on this point) or the Alpha.) Now come his list of equipment: (Not a dream wish according to him) A Super Duper Agnes capable of accessing 128K of chip ram A 460 Mb harddrive (ability to virtual Agnes chip ram) A read/write optical disk of about a Gig 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 512 Mb of Fast Ram A Mac emulator option A Unix board A Mac, MS-DOS, Amiga internal drives Now -- I disclaim all this information! My friend will fight to the death that he has talked to a developer and has seen demos (videos and tapes) of this new Amiga as a prototype unvieling. Honestly - I think he's tripping. The demos included -- Walt Disney, Ford and another company. Ford and the other company (I forgot the name - it dealt with airplanes) made one minute commercials for their company spotlighting the potential of the new Amiga as they designed a prototype car or airplane in 5 days. Then the tapes had superb digitized music where the Amiga sings. I'm telling you - my friend has some delusions. I want to know exactly how much bull is this guy eating from this developer, or how much bull he's trying to shovel me, because he's more a danger to himself than the Amiga community and I would like to set this guy straight about obvious lying. So all you loyal Amigans, I beseech thee for the correct information about the upcoming Amiga 3000 for all of our sakes. Thank you. Mitch Spinner (this is not my account, but send replies here anyway) A public service message.. Disclaimer -- I make no claim that this information is based in reality