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- From: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Fat Lady warming up!
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 08:32:49 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
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- Ross Y Cohen (rycohen@acsu.buffalo.edu) writes:
-
- > And as I programmer, I'm *really exited* with the prospect
- > of the future prospect of outdated personal computer hardware.
-
- Hmmmm... Finally someone speaks up as a programmer. I have seen enough
- of those C0DER wanting custom chips to be sick. Yeap that includes the
- AGA extenders. DRACO proves once and for all that better Amigas can be
- built without custom chips.
-
- >>(myself included) involved in VisCorp are ex-Commodore folks, both
- >>managers and engineers. We're the same group that brought you CDTV.
- >
- > Never had much use for CDTV; it wasn't a personal computer.
-
- It is a nice looking box, but too limited. There wasn't much commerical
- success either.
-
- > Folks, these people are a set-top company, not a personal computer
- > company. It sounds to me like they're hoping we're all going
- > to go out and buy they're set-top because it says 'amiga' on the
- > front.
-
- That's the part I am afraid of. They have quite a bit of difference in
- priorty in terms of what they want than that of AT.
-
- >>Our primary purpose for wanting to aquire the technology is to support
- >>it properly, improve the chipsets, and apply the technology in new
- >>markets. Things that the old C= never wanted to do. The Amiga
-
- May be improving the chipsets isn't such a good idea for the computer
- market ? Graphic chip & card makers put in years of work making just the
- graphics products. ATI Technologies in Toronto put in 15 Millions dollars
- into R&D last year. Would Viscorp be able to catch up using a 10 years
- old chipset and with what budget ? What's development time for that ?
- Even if they can get AAA chips and OS to work in 6 months, it is already
- too late and too expensive. AAA can probably make people happy say for a
- year or so. It'll take them quite a bit of time to make the next
- generation. Most matured manufacturers always working on new products
- while they have one on the market.
-
- >>architecture is key to our own products and we wanted to insure its
- >>future.
-
- That's the final thing that's blocking the Amiga's future. The future is
- to go as much hardware independence as possible. Otherwise projects like
- Power PC doesn't make sense. Read up on what the common platform
- (whatever they called these days) requires. There are enough hardware to
- run any modern OS. Why plug it up with tons of stuff that would only
- increase the cost of the machine.
-
- >>We *like* the Amiga and intend to keep up production of the current
- >>models. The vision isn't dead, it's being reborn.
- >
- > Phew. I feel reassured now.
-
- I still don't know whether or not it is heading the right direction.
-
- >>Steve Kreckman (kreck@ix.netcom.com)
-
- K. C. Lee
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