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- Date: 25 Mar 1996 14:48:32 GMT-0400
- Path: shoestring.opus-networx.com!Animator
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- From: Animator@shoestring.opus-networx.com (Animator)
- Message-ID: <8277833149102@shoestring.opus-networx.com>
- Organization: OPUS NETWORX BBS - 809-628-5023
- References: <31540741.8523714@news.concentric.net>
- Subject: RE: Microsoft, Blue Ribbo
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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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- > | J.M.
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- sorry for quoting the whole piece, but.....have you considered that it is
- the APRIL issue of the magazine and Dvorak is well known for his April 1st
- stories!
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- ************ Paul Braithwaite animator@opus-networx.com *************
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