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This is some important news from the
|1-Computer'95 expo
held in Cologne 10-12.11.95
10.11.95
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The future of the AMIGA or some facts and news from the COMPUTER'95 expo
held in Cologne 10-12.11.95.
New models:
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First of all there will be enough new Amiga 1200 and - in the beginning
of the comming year - Amiga 4000T, too.
At the moment there are NO plans existing about new Amiga models to be
developed, because A.T. has NOT the money to pay for new developments.
First of all they want to have a look on the market in order to see, if
the Amiga will be still accepted or not. Seems to be a dark future for
our little silicon-girlfriend but hold on and go on reading about PPC
support !!
AmigaOS 4.0:
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Yes, you read right! A.T. is planning to push up the existing OS 3.1
with some new features and of course bug-fixing.
The A.T. employee told something about better support for graphic cards,
faster OS routines and lots of new version of libs, datatypes etc.
Should be released somewhere around february '96.
PPC support:
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Yes, yes !! When walking around the expo I noticed a little board
inside a glass- box entitled as MC68030/PPC Hybridcard.
Phase 5, the high quality german hardware wizards well known for
products like Fastlane Z3, Cyberstorm, Cybervision etc., have already
started developing a PowerPC-based processor-board to be released in the
mid of 1996. Let me quote some parts from an info-sheet spread at
Phase5 stall:
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| The low cost PPC board will be shipped with a MPC603e 100++MHz |
| cpu, the high end processor card will come with a MPC604 running |
| at 100MHZ and - when available - even with higher speeds at 150++ |
| MHz. | Furthermore there are more powerful processors like the |
| real 64-bit MCP620 running with 300MHz in development. Even |
| 64-Bit memoryexpansioncards and a new 64-bit local bus-system |
| with optional PCI-bridge should become reality on Amiga. The PPC |
| card will first be available for A1200 - A3000 - A4000 with |
| prices at 1000 german marks for the light and 2000,- german marks |
| for the high-end version. |
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| Furthermore Phase5 will rewrite the Amiga's execcore as PPC |
| native code to gain maximum performance. CybergraphX will get |
| add-ons for multimedia and other graphic- oriented applications. |
| Furthermore softwaredevelopers should get the possibility to |
| produce highquality software running on EVERY configuration. |
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| There are already some well-known software companies asked to |
| re-write their soft- ware for the PPC like Maxon, Almathera, |
| ProDad or Softwood. " |
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Ok, hope all of this will come true.
I still believe in this machine !
signed .... Prophet / Wizzcat ( ... still in business!!).
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