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- In article <4ih45h$h57@tkhut.sojourn.com> mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell) writes:
- > Lee Huggett (Lee@burst.demon.co.uk) wrote:
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- > : Amigas were orignally designed to be the ultimate games machine, back in 1982
- > : but thne the botom dropped out of the video games market so the team converted
- > : the machine into a computer..
- >
- > Nope. You're wrong there. It was designed to be a low cost video
- > workstation. It was the original "multimediate PC", even though the
- > term was not yet in use. It was NOT designed to simply be a games
- > machine. That simply happened to follow naturally as a result of the
- > Amiga's video and audio skills. Now I'm certain that games *did*
- > cross the minds of the developers.
- >
- That seems to disagree with the history that was always reported when
- the Amiga first came out -- that the hardware (custom chips) WERE being
- designed for a super game machine, and only later did the thought of making it
- a full-fledged computer come up. And shortly after that, CBM bought up the
- Amiga designers to bring it to market.
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