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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 23:42:54 GMT
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- >: Well, the Amiga WAS originally designed to be a killer games console (by an
- >: company called Amiga - the console would be called Loraine). The
- >: multitasking OS, and adding a disk drive and keyboard was an afterthought
- >: after Commodore bought Amiga.
-
- >Well, the chipset was designed for games. As you said, the OS was added,
- >which IMHO made it to what Amiga is.
- Well, then why was Jay Miner caled The Father of the Amiga when he only
- worked on the chipset and not on the OS at all and why was the chipset 90% of
- what you about the Amiga for the first few years and still 70% until the last
- year? And why is the Amiga called the son of the Atari 800 when the OS's of the
- two have absolutely no relation at all?
-
- >Today, chipset blitter
- beeing factors slower than S3 blitters, Also was never fully updated since
- original design over ten years ago.
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