Conference hydra::amiga_v1

1419.0. "COMDEX Announcements from C/A" by POBOX::ANDREWS (How come nobody told *ME*?) Thu May 12 1988 19:52

I captured the following off of a bulletin board run by the
midwest technical rep. for C/A.  It is a short list of things that they
announced at comdex in Atlanta.

[The guy had to leave the show early, because his wife just had a baby
girl.  I asked and they are not going to name her Agnus, Denise or Paula]

Number: [84] of [100]
 Title: COMDEX
Author: Todd [1]
  Time: Tue May 10 17:06:31 1988

AND NOW....  The moment you have all been waiting for! 
 
At Comdex, Commodore USA has officially announced these items as being
under developement for release in the United States. They are:
 1) A2300 Genlock
 2) A520 RF Modulator
 3) A2090A Auto-Boot Hardrive controller
 4) A590 Hard disk Kit
 5) A2350 PVA Board (with real time frame grabber)
 6) A2620 68020 card
 7) A2286 AT Bridgeboard
 8) A2024 non-interlace (704x256),(704x512),(1008x1024) resolution
          monochrome monitor
 9) A2058 2/8 meg ram card
10) WorkBench 1.3 and ROM based Kickstart 1.3
11) ECS - Enhanced Chip Set.  Includes Denise, Fat Agnus (Allows 1 MEG
          CHIP ram),Gary. ONLY FOR  500 and 2000 owners. This will also
          have a new 640x400 hi-res screen that is NON-INTERLACE. Only 16
          Oops I mean upto 64 colors available. This set REQUIRES version
          1.4 AmigaDos and a BISYNC MONITOR.
12) UNIX SYSTEM V  -  We SHOWED and RAN this completed Unix set-up. As we
                      did this, we multi-tasked with MS-DOS and Amiga-dos
                      at the same time. The version is System 5 release 3,
                      verison 1.  This WAS DEMONSTRATED PUBLICALLY to the 
                      press and the dealers. 
13) TOPS  This was shown and will be marketed by Commodore as a network
          fully operational using Amiga, MSdos and Macintosh TOGETHER on 
          ONE NETWORK! We displayed this using the PC 20-III and A2000
          Running together.
 
All of these are NOT YET PRODUCT. These are still in developement and due
for release by the end of the year with the exception of 1.4 Amigados and
Unix.  AmigaDos 1.4 will include many features which I will outline in the
following message.
 
Todd Butson
Commodore Business Machines, Inc.

Number: [85] of [100]
 Title: 1.4
Author: Todd [1]
  Time: Tue May 10 17:13:19 1988

Version 1.4 -  It is WAY to early to make promises, however here is an
outline of some of the items we hope to provide:
 
Support for new Custom Chips
Support for A2024 Monochrome monitor
Character Mapped Console device
Bitmap Scaling
Intuition Gadget Systems Changes
Commodities Exchange
Preferences Exchange
Workbench changes
Serial.Device & Parallel.device
AmigaDos
   a) FFS as standard
   b) standard file requester
   c) Expanded library of dos calls
   d) Record locking
   e) Enhanced Shell
   f) Improved Script language
   g) Improved Commands
 
Colorfont Support
Faster Text in Rom
Overscan support
More Math library enhancement, including single precision IEEE
and of course any bug fixes.
 
AGAIN, This is prelim and subjetc to change at any time.
 
Todd Butson
Commodore Business Machines, Inc.