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- From: "Robert S. Iacullo" <eagle@serv.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Viscorp, Amiga, and the future.
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 21:09:12 -0700
- Organization: A.C.C.O.
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- Pacarana wrote:
- >
- > >I think that they have specific plans for their TV set-top box
- > >that were being jeopardized by troubles at ESCOM. They saw the
- > >lack ofAT marketing of the Amiga in NA and saw an opportunity
- > >to both protect their product and control the Amiga's future
- > >which is intimitely linked to their TV box.
- > Although this is going way out on a limb and has a 90% of being wrong
- > (in fact they may even turn out to be direct and ferocious competitors),
- > perhaps the top secret M2 derivative based project that the M2 WWW page says
- > that RJ Mical is working on has been in conjunction with VIScorp? RJ,
- > Needle and the VISCorp gang all know each other from way back in the
- > early 80's when they created the Amiga and the company that bought the M2
- > rights wants to move into set top boxes and networking boxes yet I don't
- > believe that they have much of an OS yet, or copper lists and
- > some other useful stuff as well for that matter. Of course, no viscorp
- > comments directly hint at that, and a number seem to actually hint against
- > it.
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- What is the URL of the M2 page? Thanks.
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