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- From: sbh@cs.waikato.ac.nz (Stephen B Hodge)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: VISCORP and AT ... A non-whining point of view ;-)
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- Date: 15 Apr 1996 08:20:25 GMT
- Organization: The University of Waikato
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- Andrew Oland (Andy@lando.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : On 12-Apr-96 13:50:29, Fabio D'Alessi did write about VISCORP and AT ... A non-whining point of view ;-),
- :
- : Hi Fabio,
- :
- : FD> As far as I see it, VISCORP seems to be acquiring the "rights"
- : FD> to utilize the Amiga chips and OS for their purposes, but this
- : FD> does not mean that they are acquiring "exclusive rights" or
- : FD> buying the AT. In other words, I don't really think that they
- : FD> will stop the project of a PPC Amiga to develop their ETV sets.
- : FD> I don't think they will have such an influence in AT developing
- : FD> teams.
- : FD> They will just develop their sets while AT will go on projecting
- : FD> our wonderful PPCAmiga.
- :
- : It seems to me that Viscorp have bought AT from Escom. If Viscorp
- : just wanted the rights to use the OS and Chip-sets a simple licence
- : agreement would have surficed. So I've really got to disagree with
- : you here.
- :
- : Seeing as Viscorp have complete control over AT (from the way I see
- : it) they have the power to halt all further development of the PPC
- : Amiga if they so wish...lets just hope they don't.
-
- From what Dave Haynie said Viscorp already had the licence agreement.
- They have now bought (or are about to buy) the company itself.
- Obviously they want control of the direction of future development.
- As Dave said, to have a computer and a settop box with compatable
- hardware and software is a very useful thing.
- However, don't panic yet. The word from Carl Sassenrath (ex Commodore
- Amiga OS engineer who works at Viscorp) is that they want to continue
- development of the Amiga as a computer. My question is what sort of
- assets do they have to achieve this?
-
- --
-
- Steve Hodge
- sbh@cs.waikato.ac.nz
- Computer Science Dept, University of Waikato,
- Hamilton, New Zealand
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