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- From: myxx@cris.com (Myxx)
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- Subject: Microsoft, Blue Ribbon, and the Amiga
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:28:17 GMT
- Organization: Schr÷dinger's Cat
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- I just got this month's PC Computing and read an interesting column by
- Dvorak. For those interested it is the April Issue on page 47.
-
- Gates is apparently interested in doing some acquisition of older
- technology. He has purchased some CP/M operating systems as well as
- GEM (for you Atari lovers out there). He is quoted as having tried to
- get the Amiga OS as well. He is looking for an OS that will run on
- some new machines, probably set-top boxes.
-
- Now I have been out of the Amiga arena for some time now, but I found
- this interesting as he wanted it for its 8-bit nature. 8-bit programs
- will fairly fly on a set-top box. I noticed some other interesting
- things lately as I read the Amiga newsgroups. Didn't Gates also buy
- Blue Ribbon? Was he hoping to get the OS and run some Amiga software
- on it such as SuperJam? I know that this would require some custom
- chips to emulate the sound system is an Amiga, but Gates does have
- some savy in making visions come true.
-
- The article stated that the Amiga OS is still considered a "fallback"
- choice. Hell, fallback is not a word for it. Granted, the Amiga
- state is not what it should be, but if Microsoft began to pump a
- little money into a set-top box built around the Amiga OS, running
- some of the other Amiga software shouldn't be too hard. The article
- stated that Motorola was working on an 8-bit PowerPC chip based upon
- the 615. If AT did things right, this chip could be used and the new
- Amigas could do some interesting things.
-
- Hell, I'm not a hardware guy, but it all looked suspicious to me.
- Gates buys 8-bit OS, considers Amiga OS a backup.
- Gates buys Blue Ribbon, maker of some multimedia Amiga titles.
- Big companies looking into faster 8-bit chips.
-
- I dunno.
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