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- From: fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: VisiCorp paid $40m - why?
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 12:41:30 GMT
- Organization: Universit"at Bonn, Informatik Abt. II, R"omerstr. 164, 53117 Bonn
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- Martin L Baker (mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : In article <4l7kjn$qfu@tuegate.tue.nl> you wrote:
- : : : SO WHY DIDN'T VISICORP BUY THE WHOLE OF COMMODORE?
- : :
- : : Because they were better of leaving Amiga development to others (AT). Now
- : : that AT is not under Escom anymore, they safest solution is to acquire AT.
- : : (As their product is based on Amiga technology!)
-
- : Ok, what Amiga development have AT done? I mean really, Phase 5 were
- : already working on PPC development, and I would NEVER ever describe the
- : walker as something that had been developed - more thrown together.
- Are you talking about the design or the mainboard? The mainboard is IMHO
- all they could achieve without a lot of extra $. The design has been made
- by a design company and if they failed in your opinion I won't argue :-)
-
- : : And I think VIScorp is better of leaving Amiga development under Amiga
- : : Technologies (as a daughter firm), which also does the Amiga _computer_
- : : development and sales.
-
- : Nope. Amiga development should go home now - back to America, it should
- : never have left there in the first place.
-
- Please don't forget that Europe was THE Amiga market. The USA never were.
- I don't care very much where Amigas are built as long as I get a PPC Amiga
- with a .5 GHz Exponential PPC (with Java support built-in) and 128 bit 3D
- graphic chips which support 1600x1280 in truecolor and a 30" TFT screen ...
- Ooops :-)
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- Hi, I'm not a signature virus. Why don't you just copy me into your signature?
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