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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Viscorp to buy AT!
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:15:36 GMT
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- Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake) wrote:
- >>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!
-
- Well, the first thing that Viscorp will want to do, IMHO, is to look into cost
- reducing AGA and putting it onto one chip, perhaps with some sort of AGA+ mode
- where everything runs faster. This will make their primary objective of set-top
- boxes cheaper and more compact.
-
- Next, I would start to assume that they would assess current developments,
- Walker and PPC in particular, on their own merit (and % of completion). I would
- think Walker has a very good chance of survival as it seems to be virtually
- complete and PPC would logically make a Viscorp box as powerful as the Pippin
- and superconsoles flying around at the moment, not to mention stave off any
- threat from the Matsushita M2 (in terms of being close in technology, anyway).
-
- Future devlopment is obviously in the air and would depend strongly on the
- sales of Walker and the initial PPC machines/upgrades as it should be.
-
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