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- From: scottdo@winternet.com (Scott Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Take A Deep Breath...
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 10:49:59 GMT
- Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
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- David Waters (mbanet@netcom.com) wrote:
- > Folks, please stop and think before you say or do something stupid.
- >
- > Does it make sense to spend $40-million on a wholly-owned subsidiary and
- > kill production when you already have a license for part of the
- > technology?
-
- That's my take on this as well: VisCorp ALREADY had the license to
- build settop boxes built around the AGA chips, they didn't need to buy AT
- to get that access. Nor did they need to buy AT to get continued access,
- since given their license and a bit of negotiation, they could have
- continued to get AGA chips even after AT stopped production of machines
- built around the AGA chips.
-
- > I don't claim to know what VisCorp plans to do with Amiga Technologies
- > but they haven't said that they were going to kill current or future
- > production, have they?
-
- Not yet. They might or they might not. Folks, we're really still in
- the same boat as we were: did we REALLY know what AT was going to do?
- Remember how many times there were great reports coming out of C= of new
- hardware? AAA, anyone? The A3000+? If the Walker project is as far
- along as has been rumored, VisCorp might be foolish to cancel it at this
- stage.
- And, with digital and HD TV on the horizon, a PPC-based system, using
- a chip-independent graphics subsystem, might make VERY good sense to
- develop, since there are low power, low cost PPC chips out there for use
- in embedded systems and the needs of the new forms of TV almost certainly
- will outstrip the abilities of the AGA chips to handle it.
-
-
- Scott
-