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- Press Release by Gilles Bourdin, Amiga Technologies GmbH
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- PRESS INFORMATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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- Amiga goes POWER PC (TM)
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- Bensheim 07/11/95
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- During his key note address held in Los Angeles at the Video Toaster
- Expo, Petro Tyschtschenko, CEO and President of Amiga Technologies
- officially announced the Power PC to be the processor used in the future
- generation of Amiga computers.
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- The first POWER AMIGA will be available 1st quarter 1997 and will feature
- the Power PC 604 RISC CPU. Further models will be available later in the
- entry-level, as well as in the mid-range.
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- The Power Amigas will be backwards compatible with current models and
- will also feature a new and more powerful chipset.
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- "Our pre-emptive multitasking Operating System AmigaOS will be ported to
- the Power PC platform first. Our goal is to make our OS hardware
- independent to allow further ports on other platforms", said Petro
- Tyschtschenko.
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- He also added: "We have a clear business plan: We do things
- consequently, step by step. First, we ramped up the production and set
- up an organisation to handle the Amiga market and satisfy the demand.
- Now that we have achieved this successfully, we focus on research &
- development to bring new and better products on the market. One of the
- mistakes the former Commodore made, was to do too many things at a time,
- too many promises and therefore losing focus on important aspects of its
- business. We have learned from these mistakes and won't repeat them.
- Commitments and promises are nice but facts are better."
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- The developments will also focus on including more features in the
- AmigaOS, especially regarding network abilities and memory management.
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- The development of the native RISC AmigaOS will be made internally at
- Amiga Technologies. An R&D department is currently being set up in
- Bensheim with sufficient engineers to meet the announced schedules.
- Former well known Commodore engineers as well as new competencies will
- join the team in Bensheim this year.
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- This development project will also be involving a dozen companies in
- close partnership with Amiga Technologies GmbH.
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- More good news for all Amiga users: The Power PC technology will not
- only be available for new Power Amigas. Thanks to a close co-operation
- between Amiga Technologies and Phase V, a German turbo board
- manufacturer, a full range of Power PC boards will also be available for
- the A1200, A3000 and A4000 series.
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- This will allow a general migration of the Amiga platform towards Power
- PC in a short time, also for current models.
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- First Power PC boards for current Amigas will be available before end of
- 1996.
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- Amiga Technologies will be flexible in licensing the RISC Operating
- System as before so that a global solution will be available for all
- above mentioned Amiga computers. This is especially important for the
- foreseeable partnerships.
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- The 68060 board for the Amiga 4000 T will be available during the first
- quarter of 1996 and will provide the power needed by applications like 3D
- rendering software, compilers and high-end graphics software.
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- During 1996, new 68K based entry-level models will be available. These
- Amigas will be based on the A1200 platform, with faster processors, more
- memory expansion capacity and CD ROM expansion.
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- Amiga Technologies is a 100% subsidiary of the ESCOM AG and is based in
- Bensheim, Germany.
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- You are welcome on our WEB page for more information
- at http://www.amiga.de">http://www.amiga.de
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- CONTACT:
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- Gilles Bourdin
- AMIGA Technologies
- Berliner Ring 89
- D-64625 Bensheim
- Germany
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- Tel +49 6252 709 195
- Fax +49 6252 709 520
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- eMail: gbo@amiga.de
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- Amiga is a registered trademark of ESCOM AG
- POWER PC is a registered trademark of IBM corporation
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- Copyright 1995 by AMIGA Technologies GmbH - Editor:
- Dr. Peter Kittel
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