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From: barrett@cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: TRUE A5000 TRUE FACTS (was Re: The A50000000?)
Date: 27 Jan 1994 17:41:06 GMT
In article <2i8kgs$k8v@nntp.hut.fi> samzait@snakemail.hut.fi
(Samza Itkonen) writes:
>The following is an excerpt from an article in the Amiga Report electronic
>magazine, Issue 201 [about the Amiga 5000, written by Richard Johnson]....
And here is the TRUTH behind those rumors. Oooooh, how exciting!!!!
>A5000.
>* Completely new architecture.
Yes, it's true: a COMPLETELY new architecture. NOTHING about this
architecture will be the same as previous versions: no CPU, no disks, no
monitor, etc. Instead, the A5000 consists of a 3-meter-square block of
granite with mystical runes carved on it, with a TV antenna on the top (for
genlock compatibility).
>* 040, 060 versions (simply change CPU modules).
Also true: there will be between 40 and 60 different versions of
the A5000. I don't know why that silly writer stuck a leading "0" on those
numbers... how pretentious.
>* AAA chipset (of course).
Of course. The "Advanced Amiga Atari" chipset will have both
monochrome and color modes... and software will use one or the other, but
not both.
>* DSP on the motherboard.
Unfortunately true. In order to use the DSP, you have to open
up your computer and play with little jumpers and microswitches.
>* upto 16MB chip ram, upto 128MB fast ram (probably 2/8 standard).
Yup. Two-eighths of of a meg (256K) of RAM standard, expandable to
the amounts you say, in increments of 83K.
>* ALL memory is *64* bits wide. Fast ram may even be 128 bits wide, if it
>improves performance significantly.
Hmm... let's see. A "bit" is approximately 0.000000000007
millimeters wide, meaning that a 1 MB RAM chip will be only 0.007516192768
millimeters wide. It's going to be awfully tricky installing those chips!!
Better get a VERY small tweezers and a few cups of coffee.
>* 64 bit PCI slots (confirmed!)
Absolutely true! There will be sixty-four, 1-bit PCI slots.
>* Four Zorro III slots....
Nope -- three Zorro IV slots. Zorro IV is a super-secret, very high
bandwidth bus that allows fifteen cards to be inserted into each slot
simultaneously. (Mostly thanks to those tiny RAM chips I mentioned above.)
In addition, cards inserted together will automatically share data. For
example, you can insert a Picasso graphics card and a Sunrize audio
digitizer card into the same slot, and voila! A new, integrated peripheral
that handles both graphics and sound!! You can also insert a Video Toaster
together with a modem, creating a video telephone with 24-bit graphics.
The possibilities are endless.
>* 3.6MB floppy drive.
No, sorry: it's a 3.6 INCH floppy drive. Just slightly wider than
a standard 3.5" drive, to accommodate those copy-protected games with
extra disk tracks.
>* AmigaOS 4.0 with RTG, networking standard.
Has anybody realized yet that the correct abbreviation for
"Retargetable Graphics" should actually be "RG", not "RTG"? Well, you are
very clever if you did. You see, the 'T' in "RTG" actually stands for
"Telepathic". So not only will the Amiga 5000 be able to use ANY graphics
board, but also it will be able to read your mind and display whatever
you are thinking, in glorious HAM24 color!
>* Price well under $4000 (goal is $1500-$2000). Different models with
>various configurations of chip ram, ram and HD.
Each of the 40-60 models mentioned above will have a different
price, determined by the ultra-reliable Commodore Marketing Department
Automated Dice-Rolling Machine And Pasta Maker.
>There will be nothing out there like this machine.
Yes, I guarantee it!!
Dan
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Copyright 1994 by Daniel J. Barrett. All rights reserved.
This article may be freely distributed as long as it is distributed in its
entirety. It may not be included in any publication without the written
permission of the author. So nyaaah.