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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 17:52:33 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
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- >: > It can't be done without _MAJOR_ money, which AT and Escom don't
- >: >have.
- >: The original chipset team didn't have all that tremendously much money.
- >: And if AT can't afford to do a good chipset then they should have never
- >: bothered to go to the auction for CBM. I wish the auctionhad proceeded
- >: faster so that the IBM/CEI team could have won.
-
- >Okay, do you REMEMBER 1985!? It was a pretty different world than the one
- >we live in today... People cannot rely on the "well they did it 10 years
- >ago" way of thinking, since the 80s home computer market is totally
- >incomparable to the market of today.
- >AGA was certainly not the reason to be buying CBM. It was outdated before
- >it was ever released...
- >Reg Martin
-
- Yes, AGA itself certainly wasn't the reason to buy AT. But Hombre might
- have (and absolutely if the auction had proceeded faster) and all the patents
- for making an amiga-style Hombre Plus type design certianly was.
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