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- From: enger@arco7.cc.bbsrc.ac.uk (john enger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: VISICORP
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 16:39:28 GMT
- Organization: BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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- John Gerardi (nekosan@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE) wrote:
- : Chris Brown (cbrown@armltd.co.uk) wrote:
-
- : : Has anyone seen the press release page on the AT web server recently?
- : : There's an item about VISICORP wanting to buy AT from Escom. They say
- : : they want the technology for set top boxes, but hope to carry on the
- : : sale of the A4000T and A1200, as well as development of new models for
- : : the European market.
-
- : My boss showed me a small column in today's Wall St.Journal.It seems that
- : according to this column Escom sold Amiga Tech to Visicorp.Now I don't
- : know if these people intend to actually build computers or just set top
- : boxes but it seems to me that this might-if its true-be the beginning of
- : the end for this wonderful little machine.
-
- I've pulled the following of The Amiga Web Directorys news pages. Maybe it
- will allay some fears?
-
- "The following quote is from Carl Sassenrath, Director of Software for
- VISorp, the company which has proposed a plan to purchase Amiga
- Technologies from Escom. His comments were in answer to questions
- posed to him about the future of the Amiga from CUCUG. He has made
- these comments to others on the net, as well.
-
- ---
-
- What I have been telling people is not to worry. We are all Amiga
- lovers here. Unlike ESCOM or even Commodore, VIScorp does not have a
- single IBM PC person in the group. We are all solid Amigans from the
- very beginning (for example, I developed the Amiga's Multitasking OS,
- CDTV system, AmigaLogo, Bay, OptCD, ISOCD, etc.).
-
- Personally speaking, I don't plan on killing the Amiga. In fact, if
- they ask me to take over system development, you'll see one killer
- Amiga!"
-
-
- eof"
-
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