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- Path: news.gate.net!nostromo!damocles
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: The ESCOM sale of AT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Nostromo
- From: damocles@nostromo.gate.net (Randy Vice)
- Message-ID: <damocles.3maa@nostromo.gate.net>
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 96 10:06:04 EST
-
- On Sat 13-Apr-1996 11:33a, Pryor J R wrote:
- PR> Robert Davis (rdavis@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- PR> :
- PR> : The press release says:
- PR> : "..... products that give home users capabilities such as telephone
- PR> : reception and dial-up capabilities, facsimile, video games,
- PR> : pay-per-view options, electronic mail, and access to on-linee
- PR> : services, including the Internet."
- PR> :
- PR> : That sure sounds like they intend to build machines which
- PR> : use Amiga parts, and act a lot like computers.
-
- PR> Yeah but you don't need a PowerPC to do all of that, what is stopping
- PR> VIScorp from abondoning the PPC prject, at least for a while?
-
- Because AT needs it to compete and make larger profits. VIScom maybe the new
- owner but AT has already invested X amount of R&D and hopefully some T&E by
- now. Would you want to stop a project and watch what you just bought go down
- a rat hole? In this industry time is a major consideration. AT is behind the
- powercurve with leading edge systems and this will propell AT back up with the
- rest of the pack. I doubt that VIScom will want to slow down this critical
- project. Speed it up perhaps, but to slow it down will lessen the value of
- their recently bought item. And as we've seen with ESCOM, CEOs have hell to
- pay for dropping stockmarket prices..........
-
- : damocles@nostromo.gate.net : Bruce Morrow,a man before and after his time:
- :"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the :
- :United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." :
- : - Samual Adams : Morrow Project Recon: The Expendible Ones :
-