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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Viscorp to buy AT!
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 22:40:03 -0700
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- >Digita International (info@digita.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- >: Paul Chan <paul> wrote:
- >:
- >: >Viscorp are based in the US. Softwood should have less problem getting
- >: >through to them for developer kits etc. Plus, there may be a chance
- >: >that Viscorp A1200`s come bundled with Final Writer Lite, some cheap
- >: >Spreadsheet/database packages, and maybe a paint program. No wonder
- >: >Digita don`t like it! ;)
- >:
- >: No, thats not why I said it doesn`t look good, I was talking about the
- >: Amiga in general. Everyone is assuming that Viscorp is buying AT to
- >: continue developing and making Amiga computers, but I wonder if they
- >: don`t just want the chipset and OS for their settop boxes, which they
- >: already used under licence.
- >:
- > Paul, I think Mark is right on this. Woody is being optomistic
- >and Mark pessemistic. There is no obvious reason to believe that there
- >will be an immediate, significant, shift in either company's relative
- >fortunes based on this sale. If Woody is right, both will prosper, if
- >Mark, neither.
- > The question is about commitment. Is VIScorp commited to the
- >continued life and development of the Amiga computer line or simply the
- >portion of the technology related to their main business? The two could
- >be seen as linked. (Woody) Or not. (Mark) How can we tip the scales?
-
- Well, that question should be an easy read for all of us? VisCorp already
- has the license for the chipset and Os to use in set top boxes.
-
- If they have what they need already, why buy the whole bundle if they are
- NOT interested in doing more? Remember too, that there are some of the old
- Amiga guru's working at VisCorp!
-
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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