Amiga from Commodore
Michael Foster Rivero
rivero at kovacs.UUCP
Sat Aug 31 11:53:15 AEST 1985
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By now, you must be hearing the announcments of the new
Amiga computer fromm Commodore. If you haven't, here is a
quick rundown.
68000 based system with a two level operating system. Core
system is called AmigaDOS and is clearly a UNIX lookalike that
supports csh type conditionals for shell scripts, file
redirection, and multi-tasking The neophyte user-interface is
called intuition, and is a menu-driven windowed system that
uses a mouse (sound familiar?). Base system ($1200) has 256K
memory, 4 channel synthesiser, and choice of 5 graphics modes
with screen resolution up to roughly 300 by 600, and up to 32
simultaneous colors selected from a palet of 4096 possible
colors. (There is even a way to show more than 32 colors on
the same screen.) The 68000 clocks at over 7 megahertz, and
is augmented by custom chips for i/o, sound, and graphics.
Available options include an IBM PC emulator, hard disk, and
up to 8 Megabytes of memory!
There is a *ell of a lot more to this machine, but I leave
that to your own research. Needless to say, there will
probably be a net.sources.amiga newsgroup before too much
longer.
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