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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 96 23:17:28 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to b
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4nq7@grafix.xs4all.nl>
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- In a message of 21 Mar 96 S.e. Morris wrote to All:
-
- >> Nope. You're wrong there. It was designed to be a low cost video
- >> workstation. It was the original "multimediate PC", even though the term
- >> was not yet in use. It was NOT designed to simply be a games machine.
-
- SeM> Nope. Sorry YOU'RE wrong. Amiga (that was the company's name)
- SeM> originally designed the machine as the ultimate games console. This is
- SeM> a well established fact, backed up by the people who worked on it at
- SeM> the time.
- SeM> When Commodore bought out Amiga (and it became Commodore-Amiga) they
- SeM> adapted the hardware and wrote an OS for the machine so to turn it into
- SeM> a 'mutlimedia PC'.
-
- Nope, sorry - (wait for it, here it comes:) you're wrong, at least
- partially. Amiga Inc (or Hi-Toro) did indeed design the Amiga
- as a games machine, but Jay Miner & friends added expansion
- options to turn it into a "real" computer almost right from
- the start.
-
- I remember an interview in the German Amiga Magazin,
- quoting RJ Mical, on his job interview with Amiga, as chuckling
- to Jay M. when seeing small annotations like "KYBD" and "DRV" on the
- Amiga schematics: "Game machine, right?"
-
- Regards, Ruud
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