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From: metahawk@itsgw.rpi.edu (Wayne G Rigby)
Subject: Re: Info about the A3000
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Date: 6 May 91 03:22:07 GMT
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In article <22651@yunexus.YorkU.CA> philip@yunexus.yorku.ca (Phil McDunnough) writes:
>Hmm...as a MacIIci,GS and NeXT user, I must tell you that this Commodore
>upgrade is most impressive. It's rare( very) to see companies support
>their loyal users in this way. I have been following the Amiga world
>for quite some time now. This may just be the thing that convinces me
>to get one. I wouldn't, of course, ever part with the GS or the NeXT.
>The Mac is another story.
>
>Commodore also sells a product called CDTV. Can this work with an A3000?
>That is, can it function as a CD-ROM drive for the A3000?

You can hook up the CDTV to an A3000, or any other Amiga, but it would
be rather pointless in most cases.  CDTV is, basically, a 1 Meg A500
that runs off of CDs.  So getting one is all you need, and a little bit of
overkill if you want to hook up a CD ROM drive to your Amiga.  Commodore
will be releasing the A690 CD drive for A500's "soon," and they are working
on CD ROM drives for the A2000 series and A3000.  If you want a CD ROM drive
now, you can get a Xetec drive, with which only one CDTV Title has been 
found that doesn't work with it..

>Finally, which OS is Commodore going to standardize on? There seems to be
>2.0 in the A3000 and 1.3 in CDTV, A500, A2000....

As soon as Commodore finishes the Kickstart 2.0 ROMs, Workbench 2.0 will be
shipped (at least from what I've heard) with all new A3000's, A2x00's, and
A500P's.  I'm not sure about the A500C, and since the CDTV is so new and
really has no need of a workbench for most of its Titles, I really doubt if
it'll have 2.0 for a long while.

>Just very impressed,
>
>Philip McDunnough
>Professor of Statistics
>University of Toronto ->philip@utstat.utoronto.ca
>[my opinions, etc...]

                                   Wayne Rigby
                                   Computer and Systems Engineer (in training)
                                   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
                                   metahawk@rpi.edu

