Amiga from Commodore

[Michael Foster Rivero]

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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.