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- From: kerryp@cyberspc.mb.ca (Kerry Paulson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Haynie joins AT team
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 13:51:35 GMT
- Organization: Cyberspace Online Information Systems
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- References: <14FEF421@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> <4inrtg$hlp@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4itcta$lpa@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : In article <4inrtg$hlp@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
- : howard daniel joseph <djhoward@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
- : >Mat Bettinson (mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : >
- : >: It's not just a rumour;
- : >
- : >: I personally heard it from Stefan Doymeyer's (AT President) own mouth.
-
- No offense, but I'd rather hear if from Dave's own mouth :) I hope
- it's true, but Dave has stated in the past that he is happy with his
- current job. I believe he is advising AT on the design, but this is not
- the same as relocating to work on the new systems.
-
- : >
- : >: Dave Haynie is ON the AT dev team and is relocating to Bensheim.
- : >
- : > All these people complaining about AT marketing, and Doymeyer
- : >says one thing to a dude in UK and it's all reversed ... :D
- : >
- : > Yay for Haynie! Yay for AT! I hope they're gettin' other cool
- : >folk on board too! :)
- :
- : Don't forget the "Amiga God" has the opinion to go totally standard and
- : scrap all Amigaish hardware and just go with the OS.
- :
-
- Keep in mind that standard != crap. You can put together quite an
- impressive system from standard hardware these days. If you have an OS
- which can take advantage of it (read: NOT windows/derivatives) then the
- machine might stand a chance.
-
- : This attiude now being employed by a PC box pusher who lost $125 million
- : DEM will not help the Amiga live on.. the OS will.. the Amiga will not,
- : as it seems with recent news... kind of like the transition Saturn (car
- : maker) went through..(Commercial speaking about new 1996 make of cars) -
- : "Though it has a lot of similarities to the original design.."
- :
- : -=*George*=-
-
- I believe they made a profit in the previous 6 years. They will likely
- lose even more money before things turn around, hopefully they will be
- able to take the loss and start making a profit on the new models.
-
- Kerry
-