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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
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- Subject: Re: Are Amiga users steadily becoming Amiga Programmers?
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- Date: 1 Apr 1996 17:42:41 GMT
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- Dave Gentry (dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com) wrote:
- : environment, etc? With the pullout of most of the commercial
- : developers, does this mean that we'll have to become experts on coding
- : our own machines to make it useful? Will AmigaOS become a hobby
- : platform for PD authors? If AT goes under, will we have to get the
- : source code for the OS and make it into the next Linux?
-
- It's the return of the garage developer.
-
- The Amiga business cycle has seen lots of companies go from the garage,
- to the office, and either to buyout or bankruptcy.
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- Now, a new generation of garagers and wannabe garagers are coming out of
- the woodwork. That's why so many new products are coming from NEW
- developers.
-
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