Magazines Archives AMIGA Computing (EN) Amiga Computing Issue 001 Vol 01 01 1988 Jun
The announccment of two types of
Amiga 2500 is a tittle mistcading. The machines arc csscntiaHy Amiga 2000s with options instaüed. The Amiga 2500 AT is an A2000 with the AT bridgehoard. 2090A dise controller. ECS. The A2620 68020 proccssor. An Amiga 3.5in drive, a 1.2Mb A type floppy and a 40Mh hard dise. The Amiga 2500UX is an A2000 with ECS. A 68020. The 2090A controller. Unix and a 100Mb hard dise. Thcre wiH he an optional tape streamer. AH Amiga 2000 owners wiH be abte to upgradc to the 2500 spécification if
they can gct the bank manager to agree. ETWORKING is becoming jL more important, and there are a number of add-in cards for the A2000. Ameristar has a high spécification Ethernet card which wiH allow an Amiga to sharc a network with mini and mainframc computers. In independent tests this board was found to he the fourth best Ethernet controller in a ficld of welI Over 100 products. In compétition with companies tike Ohvetti. Apptc and DEC. Compatihility is very important in networking.
You need to use other peoplc's standards if you want to be accepted.so the Apptetatk network from Progressive Pcripherals which wiH allow the Amiga to be conncctcd to Macintosh peripherats as we)I As to Macintoshcs. Shoutd prove popular with users ot this network. GaiI Was Iess fortheoming on pians for I9H9. Which are rumoured to inciade an Amiga 3000 witIt a 68030. And a 68030 card for the Amiga 2000.
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