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- From: fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,aus.computers.amiga
- Subject: Re: Death of Amiga??
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,aus.computers.amiga
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 23:12:09 GMT
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- Nicholas Stallard (Snowy@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de) wrote:
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- : Hi,
- : Fabian Jimenez had the following to say about Re: Death of Amiga?? ..
- : FJ> James McArthur wrote:
- : FJ> Now I think this is a good thing. You see Amiga Tech will function as
- : FJ> they did under Escom. The major difference is that VIScorp now owns
- : FJ> them and has a real interest in the Amiga and its success. All Escom
- : FJ> wanted from Amiga Tech is profit. It was up to Amiga Tech in their eyes
- : FJ> to do Amiga Development.
- : Interesting point og view but if Escom was never interested in the Amiga Development,
- : why did they buy it in the first place and made and extra firm for it ?
- Manfred Schmitt wanted the Amiga. Even if you run the company one person
- isn't enough in a company as large as ESCOM.
-
- : FJ> She also stated that they have several Amiga people as hardware and
- : FJ> software engineers. I dunno if Carl Sarensath (sp?) is still with them
- : FJ> though, you know he wrote AmigaOS. I ultimately like VIScorp since they
- : FJ> acknowledge that there is a US market for the Amiga unlike Escom who
- : FJ> just paid it lipservice.
-
- : If VisCorp serverd the US market like Escom should have done, I could see
- : nice sales figures there .. and again .. let`s wait and see ..
-
- : FJ> She was very upbeat and predicted a re-emergence of the Amiga as a
- : FJ> computer platform as well as a set top box device. Can you imagine the
- : FJ> attachments that will be available for your Amiga someday that will let
- : FJ> you hook up to cable tvs and such?
-
- : Not really.. I believe they will use the OS for the Interactivity with them
- : planned set top boxes for the cable tv ..
-
- : I am still in doubt about viscorp unless *I* see some progress going on with them.
- : And I do not think it was a very good thing to sell AT at this vital point,
- : where everyone expected new developments. A lot of faith into AT (including mine)
- : has been ruined due to that news...
- :
- ESCOM wasn't involved in Amiga development. The development of new Amigas
- probably wasn't delayed at all. What are you worrying about?
-
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