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- From: johns@digital.netvoyage.net
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Viscorp
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 20:32:00 -0700
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- Summary: VisCorp- Big Deal!
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-
- You people who've read the latest press releases can correct me if I'm
- wrong, but from the ones I read, it doesn't seem like much has changed.
-
- I see messages where people are getting all excited about VisCorp, but
- VisCorp's own press releases don't seem to say what these people think
- they do. VisCorp says that they "licensed" the Amiga technology , not
- that they "bought" the technology. Apparently, VisCom has been trying to
- buy the license since Escom first bought it, and in the last year has been
- making set top box prototypes using the AMiga technology.
-
- But having done so, they can't go into production without a license to use
- the technology, and that is what they just bought from Escom/Amiga
- Technologies for, what $60 million or something?
-
- visCorp's press release that I read didn't say much about producing "high
- end " Amigas, they don't seem to be interested in that.
-
- Escom's message seems to say that they didn't actually "sell" Amiga
- Technologies, and that AT will continue to make the new Amigas. Of
- course, will any of those make it out of Europe? and will any of them be
- NTSC? are the questions that remain to be answered.
-
- Granted, the former Commodore employees who now work for VC would like to
- see production of new Amigas, but are these the guys who make those
- corporate decisions for VisCorp?, or do they just work there?
-
- Seems to me that Escom is a clone maker, and AT is an Amiga-for-Europe
- maker, and VC is a set top box maker, and nobody is going to see any new
- Amigas to replace the 4000 in this country for quite awhile.
-
- Again, I only know what I read here, so if I'm wrong, say so, I'd be glad
- to here it.
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-