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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2090A HD controller
Message-ID: <2891@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 20:52:21 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2891
Posted: Wed Dec  2 20:52:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 07:39:56 EST
References: <5474@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <5474@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
> Now that Dan Schein has broken the news, it is no longer a "rumor".  C= has
> in production the A2090A HD controller that will allow booting from the HD
> (unlike the old A2090 HD controller).  For some of the people that have
> ordered > (and paid) for the "old" A2090, it would be nice if C= would
> respond to the following questions:

Alas, poor Dan was only speaking in the "everybody knows Commodore will have
to come out with a disk controller that supports the autoboot protocol" mode
and there has been no product announcement.  As such, your questions remain
unanswerable, at least by those of us at the Peon level.

Part of the A2090 problems is that the European were apprarently convinced
that almost every A2000 would be sold with a Bridgecard, and once you had
a Bridgecard it's cheaper to just use a standard PC hard disk controller
and drive.  This means that unlike the memory and Bridgecards, the A2090
wasn't already in volume production and probably warped sales estimates to boot.

-- 
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