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- From: "Julio C. Arroyo" <jcarroyo@ix.netcom.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: The ESCOM sale of AT
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 03:11:14 -0400
- Organization: Netcom
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- >
- > Yeah but you don't need a PowerPC to do all of that, what is stopping
- > VIScorp from abondoning the PPC prject, at least for a while?
-
- Maybe the fact that the 68000 series of microprocessors is coming
- to an end with the 060 will prevent this from passing. Why stop R&D and the
- port of the OS when the end of the processor it runs on is at an end?
-
- A company willing to shell out that kind of money for AT has done its
- share of research. I feel VisCorp saw what was coming down the pipes at AT
- and knows that this technology would place them in the forefront of anything
- available at present. They are not buying into the past, they are buying into
- the future. Besides, what platform are they going to use to develop software
- for their ITV technology. If the letter going around about the developers at
- VisCorp not using PCs is true, then my bet is that its an Amiga.
- -Alas development tools available.
- -Internet games available.
- -Amigacentric development enmass
-
- The Net, the final computing frontier, these are the voyages of the
- Amiga computer. It's continuing mission to seek out and convert WinTel users.
- To boldly go to were no computer has gone before.
-
- "Happy over the acquisition"
-