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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Viscorp
- Date: 18 Apr 96 14:50:34 +0500
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- On or about 18-Apr-96 08:32:00 johns typed the following words about
- "Viscorp". My reply is thus...
-
- Hi johns,
-
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- j> You people who've read the latest press releases can correct me if I'm
- j> wrong, but from the ones I read, it doesn't seem like much has changed.
-
- j> I see messages where people are getting all excited about VisCorp, but
- j> VisCorp's own press releases don't seem to say what these people think
- j> they do. VisCorp says that they "licensed" the Amiga technology , not
- j> that they "bought" the technology. Apparently, VisCom has been trying to
- j> buy the license since Escom first bought it, and in the last year has been
- j> making set top box prototypes using the AMiga technology.
-
- j> But having done so, they can't go into production without a license to use
- j> the technology, and that is what they just bought from Escom/Amiga
- j> Technologies for, what $60 million or something?
-
- j> visCorp's press release that I read didn't say much about producing "high
- j> end " Amigas, they don't seem to be interested in that.
-
- j> Escom's message seems to say that they didn't actually "sell" Amiga
- j> Technologies, and that AT will continue to make the new Amigas. Of
- j> course, will any of those make it out of Europe? and will any of them be
- j> NTSC? are the questions that remain to be answered.
-
- j> Granted, the former Commodore employees who now work for VC would like to
- j> see production of new Amigas, but are these the guys who make those
- j> corporate decisions for VisCorp?, or do they just work there?
-
- j> Seems to me that Escom is a clone maker, and AT is an Amiga-for-Europe
- j> maker, and VC is a set top box maker, and nobody is going to see any new
- j> Amigas to replace the 4000 in this country for quite awhile.
-
- j> Again, I only know what I read here, so if I'm wrong, say so, I'd be glad
- j> to here it.
-
- You're wrong!!!!!
-
- Either you are reading different press releases than everyone else or you
- don't comprehend what you read. You didn't even get the price right for crying
- out loud.
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- I think he's a few strings short of a violin section.
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