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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 22:49:56 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to b
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4mpq@grafix.xs4all.nl>
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- In a message of 18 Mar 96 Philip Chung wrote to All:
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- >> all. And the first A1000 was in 1985, '82.. the Amiga isn't QUITE as old
- >> as a ZX Spectrum! :-)
-
- PC> Well, the Amiga WAS originally designed to be a killer games console
- PC> (by an company called Amiga - the console would be called Loraine). The
- PC> multitasking OS, and adding a disk drive and keyboard was an
- PC> afterthought after Commodore bought Amiga.
-
- Not quite. Jay M. was indeed making a games console - and the
- Lorraine was a prototype, appearing when it had already been
- decided it would be more than that - but he had been planning
- to make it expandable (keyboard, floppy drive) to a 'real' computer
- just about from the start.
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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