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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!de351
- From: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: The ESCOM sale of AT
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 00:06:40 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: de351@freenet3.carleton.ca (K. C. Lee)
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- References: <damocles.3maa@nostromo.gate.net>
- Reply-To: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
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- Randy Vice (damocles@nostromo.gate.net) writes:
- >
- > 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
-
- On the other hand Viscorp has its priority in using custom chip set.
- AT's previous direction seems to be heading away from custom chip set. Would
- Viscorp slow AT moving towards commodity SVGA graphics chips ? How would
- AT's relationship with Scalar be affected ?
-
- What's Viscorp's reasoning of buying the whole thing ? Is it because they
- want full control of the technology (ie no one else can use it) and secure the
- source of custom chips ? I guess we'll find out.
-
- K. C. Lee
-