#WOCA Show
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I'm sure someone will sooner or later, but is anyone planning to
post a transcript of Lew Eggebrecht's keynote at WOCA? I had to be
at work and missed what was apparently the most interesting part of
the show – at least according to some conversations I had with other
CBM people. One CBM guy suggested (sacrilege) that future Amigas (if
it's even appropriate to call them that) might run Windows NT! The
problem here is that while the reason he gave for the upcoming break
between low-end and high-end Amigas – that endless backwards
compatability is hobbling and the new 'AAA' architecture, which will
hit silicon in no less than a year and half will be completely new
(and modular) – is entirely valid, it is belied by this reference to
Windows NT, which, while multiplatform, comes from a much longer
(though less devout) tradition of backwards compatability than do
Amigas!
So what's up?? Any transcripts forthcoming? Any comments?
Incidentally, I asked the same guy what was in the works for the
low end Amigas – typified, he said, by the 4000T, which is some
machine, two video slots and all, btw. – and he said that there would
be certain advances in chip memory and maybe some resolution
enhancers in '94, that the DSP card would hit market in July or
August, and that basically Amigas as we know them will move forward
only in the sense of being cleaned up.
The MPEG demo looked pretty nice, too. Also, does anyone
know whether the Viper 1230 board is as good as it sounds, or how
much it will be?
Windows NT on an Amiga? Ah-ha….the DEC agreement starts to make
sense. Sounds like the next Amiga maybe will have a DEC Alpha for a
CPU, huh? C= keeps the factories humming, cranking out DEC terminals
cheaper than DEC ever could and the "Amiga" is a DEC that also runs
AmigaDOS. I'd prolly buy one. 🙂