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- From: hybrid@star.slinknet.com (Hybrid)
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- Subject: Re: Microsoft, Blue Ribbon, and the Amiga
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 11:38:03 GMT
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- Myxx (myxx@cris.com) wrote:
-
- : 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
-
- 8-bit?? The Amiga OS is 32bit and has been from day one.
-
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- : 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.
-
- If Gates wants the AmigaOS, it's for one reason, to get it under his
- control so it can't haunt him in the future when it's finally liberated
- from the Amiga hardware and is ported to different machines. Putting the
- Amiga OS head to head with Windows on the same hardware, Windows would
- loose out. I would hate to see Gates and MS get their hands on the Amiga
- OS. He wouldn't develope for it, he would bury it for good and sue anyone
- infringing on the various copyrights and patents that are part of the
- Amiga. Things like multiple virtual screens, copper and others.
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