Re: CBM900 to SVGA monitor

On 2014-07-24 21:48, smf wrote:
> This might not be the commodore 900 that it was designed for, supposedly
> there were three projects.
>
> 1. Didn't get anywhere after having a lot of time and money poured into it.
> 2. Disappeared along with schematics etc when Jack left and shortly
> afterwards the ST prototypes appeared. After Commodore sued Atari for
> walking out with intellectual property, jack found the Atari 1850XLD
> contract and sued Amiga (now commodore) for breaching that (separate
> issue from the loan Atari gave to Amiga which is the story that was
> going round). Both cases were settled out of court.
> 3. George Robbins and Bob Raible did the one that everyone knows while
> commodore were wondering what they should be doing. The answer turned
> out to be buying the Amiga so it got cancelled. Some machines made it
> out for early Amiga software development using cross
> assemblers/compilers until native tools existed, which is why "so many"
> are still around.
>

This may be a language barrier problem (in my end - so bear with me) :-) 
- but what do you mean with the saying "why so many (CBM C900's) are 
still around" - is it irony or ?

To my knowledge - we the CBM community as a whole - only know of about 6 
unique CBM C900 systems that still exist today. There may be more 
systems around - but these are the ones that we know of. And that is - 
as far as I know - a much smaller number than the number of C65 
prototypes that are known to exist today. Which makes C900 more rare 
than C65.

Also where do you have the information that CBM C900's were used as 
cross development systems for the Amiga ? In my mind the timeframe does 
not quite fit - and I've never heard of that before.

On the contrary - as far as I know - a single Sage (II) systems was used 
for the whole Amiga development prior to Commodores acquisition of 
Amiga. After the acquisition they switched to Sun workstations. Plenty 
of sources within Commodore have confirmed this. The SunOS PCC compiler 
from Bell Labs is mentioned in Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual from 
Commodore - other references to Sun exists in other manuals and writings 
as well at the downloader program on an early WorkBench.

Kind regards Uffe :-)







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