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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Viscorp, Amiga, and the future.
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Nostromo
- From: damocles@nostromo.gate.net (Randy Vice)
- Message-ID: <damocles.3m4h@nostromo.gate.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 11:14:05 EST
-
- On Thu 11-Apr-1996 5:18p, Jason Compton wrote:
- JC> Sorry, I don't have anything profound or enlightening to say at this
- JC> time. Basically, what's in the Bourdin press release is just about all
- JC> anybody knows at this point, and is all the companies involved are saying.
-
- JC> Viscorp did tell me they plan to keep Amiga Tech operational as a
- JC> computer building, sales, and development company, just as they're doing
- JC> now. Viscorp's interest is having first pick at the Amiga technology and
- JC> chipset for their own purposes, i.e. their interactive TV device.
-
- Actually, it sounds like they smell money in this and were in a good financial
- position to buy it out right from an unhealthy parent company who's strapped
- for cash. Someone willing to blow 40 million maybe someone who has the cash
- reserves to dump into more R&D and of course advertising.
-
- We (Amiga Users) just might luck out on this sale......
-
- JC> Stupid as it may sound, the important thing is to remain calm.
-
- True, we thought Escom was going to screw us real hard yet they turned out to
- be pretty damn good for the Amiga.
-
- : damocles@nostromo.gate.net : Bruce Morrow,a man before and after his time:
- :"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the :
- :United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." :
- : - Samual Adams : Morrow Project Recon: The Expendible Ones :
-