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- From: "Julio C. Arroyo" <jcarroyo@ix.netcom.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Is it Adios Amiga again? (NEW BIRTH)
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 03:49:35 -0400
- Organization: Netcom
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- Bob Powers wrote:
- >
- > I personally feel the Amiga will finally have a chance!!
- > A company buying AT at $40million dollars isn't just
- > getting what they already had(a licencing agreement to
- > build their devices),they want all the technology and the
- > current resources that Escom has built up in a small 10
- > months.
-
- I must agree here. You dont go out shelling that kind of money
- buying old technology. Any company willing to make that kind of investment
- has reasearched the tech situation. VisCorp is not buying into the past,
- they are buying into the future. VisCorp is privy to info on development
- at AT; what they saw must have impressed them enough to decide that
- licensing the chipset only for this generation, ie AGA, is not good enough.
- Its whats down the pipes that they bought into.
-
- ITV boxes cannot be their only market; their development team has
- to develop software for their ITV boxes. This equates to an Amiga for ITV
- development as a requirement; hence computers are still a necessity.
-
- If VisCorp is succesful in cornering the ITV market, the Amiga Computer,
- as a development platform, will have cornered a significant portion of an emerging
- ITV development tool market.
-
- There are more non computer users out there than here, and they might all
- be using the computer that sits next to their TV as the computer of choice in
- their Den.
-
- "Happy about the aquisition"
-