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- From: Derek M Avery <D.M.Avery-CSSE94@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Viscorp to buy AT!
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 15:11:41 +0100
- Organization: School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, U.K.
- Message-ID: <3173AA9D.4BBB@cs.bham.ac.uk>
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- Kevin W. Davidson wrote:
- >
- > Daniel Spreadbury previously wrote in comp.sys.amiga.applications:
- > >Woody Williams (woody@softwood.com) wrote:
- > >> In article <829238030.27799@digita.demon.co.uk>, info@digita.demon.co.uk
- > >> wrote:
- > >>
- > >> > Has everyone heard the news that Escom are planning to sell Amiga
- > >> > Technologies to Viscorp? (Check out AT`s home page for more info.).
- > >> >
- > >> > Doesn`t look good.
- > >> >
- > >> > Mark.
- > >>
- > >> Looks pretty darn good to us!
- >
- > >Well, Woody - would you care to enlighten us as to why this is such good
- > >news?
- >
- > I remember when Commodore was sold to ESCOM and everybody figured
- > that all ESCOM wanted was the trademark and that the Amiga was headed
- > right down the tubes. But that didn't happen. Amiga production was
- > restarted and Amiga development went ahead. But I said at the time
- > that if somebody was going to pay GOOD MONEY for Commodore, then they
- > weren't about flush it down the drain.
- >
- > Now AT has been sold FOR EVEN MORE MONEY to Visicorp (a company
- > FULL of Amiga bigots--if you haven't heard). These guys aren't
- > spending $40 million just for the privilege of flushing Amy down
- > the toilet either.
- >
- > Stay cool.
- >
- > Kevin (soft-logik@cup.portal.com)
- >
- > >--
- >
- > I'm keepin' my hyphen, so there.
-
- This to me sounds like a good thing for the Amiga, somebody atlast has
- realises that the Amiga is worth some real money, you don`t imho spend
- 40 million buying a company that a. the previous owner bought for 10
- million(I think) and b. tha has a few bits of technologhy that would be
- useful for a set top box and you already have a license for unless you
- have some pretty big intentions for the bits that you have not got a
- license for, in this case the Amiga computer.
-
- Also the odds are that the Amiga may still appear in Escom shops as they
- are one of its present distribution channels. (read the announcement
- athttp://www.cucug.org/at/at960411.html)
-
- I`m looking forward to what comes next. :-)
-
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