| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 170.1 | | HYSTER::DEARBORN | Trouvez Mieux | Wed Nov 12 1986 12:15 | 3 |
| He also mentioned that Live! will never be produced. Wonder what's
up....
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| 170.2 | | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Wed Nov 12 1986 17:32 | 10 |
| sounds interesting, that kind of news should stir up USENET for
at least a couple weeks. Sounds like either internal slots in future
machines (easier for Commodore to do now that the Zorro specs are
defined and 1.2 almost ready to ship) OR no expansion bus on future
machines. Either way will make for great pro/con arguments.
Glad they kept at least the software developers happy (even the
base system hardware isn't much fun without software).
-dave
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| 170.3 | New High-end Amigas? | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Wed Nov 12 1986 18:43 | 11 |
| I took the crack about live! as just being a sarcastic remark, not a
statement of fact. Commodore hasn't to my knowledge announced the
demise of live!.
As to the hardware developers, I side with Dave in .2. There are very
strong rumors of the next generation of Amiga hardware coming out in
the course of the next year. I wouldn't be surprised if the new Amigas
came with expansion slots, much more memory, battery backedup clocks, etc.
Remember that the Usenet reporter was very upbeat. He probably was told
of an expansion of the Amiga family rather than anything negative.
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| 170.4 | .... | JOKE::ACCIARDI | | Wed Nov 12 1986 20:17 | 11 |
| I had heard from John Foust of Amazing Computing that future Amigas
would have 2 megs of memory available to the custom chips. The
bad part was that Amiga 1000 owners would never be able to access
that extra memory, since the lines do not exist on the 1000
motherboard.
This could be construed as bad news. Or old news. Everything
that I have read or heard points to the Amiga 2500 having a hard
disk, lots of ram, and an 8088/80286 on board. This puts the squeeze
on the third-party developers, since the machine is rather complete,
no?
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| 170.5 | | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Thu Nov 13 1986 12:10 | 9 |
| re: .4 never say never... its just a hardware problem. If Amiga
doesn't provide an upgrade to the new chips, some third party or
user group will kludge some way to do it.
I'm curious how they are going to keep 3 hardware product lines
going - 64C/128, AMIGA, PC. I'd love to have the AMIGA integrate
them by having emulators for the C64/128 and the PC.
-Dave
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| 170.6 | $$$ | AUTHOR::MACDONALD | CUP/ML | Thu Nov 13 1986 15:28 | 2 |
| Such configurations will surely cost more than what you are now
using!
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