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- From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
- Subject: Re: Announcing CONNECT Magazine
- Message-ID: <crystal.726088686@glia>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 19:18:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.726088686
- References: <Jayson_Hahn.02uu@hq-bbs.wisdom.bubble.org> <1993Jan2.012128.9194@cs.mun.ca> <boing.726023679@mcl>
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- In <boing.726023679@mcl> boing@mcl.ucsb.edu (Geff Hanoian) writes:
-
- >In <1993Jan2.012128.9194@cs.mun.ca> thom@cs.mun.ca (Thomas Clancy) writes:
-
-
- >>Oh, I would say at about the same time you people grow and stop being
- >>so petty. Heaven forbid if the words Amiga and Atari get placed in the
- >>same sentence. Sheesh... seems some people have forgotten just where the
- >>Amiga came from.
- >>
-
- > OH .. MAYBE you'd like to enlighten us???!?!!?!?!! I suppose
- > you think Atari started the amiga?? What exactly are you trying to
- > say?? I feel as the others ... getting tossed in with atari is
- > like an insult to our systems. Mine started whimpering as it read
- > that one.
-
- > boing
- >--
-
- Well, CU Amiga, September 1992, p.39, had a blurb (which I don't feel like
- typing it ALL in) on the history of computing.
-
- It seems that Jack Tramiel, managing director of Commodore, left C= to head
- Atari. Some other C= folks followed him. There apparently was a company at
- this time called "Amiga" which was headed by Jay Miner, who was also the
- designer of the Atari 800 graphics chips. Lots of lawsuits at this time.
- C= was trying to buy Amiga, Atari claimed that Amiga hadn't repaid its advance
- to Atari for a chip design contract. C= finally got the Amiga company. And the
- computer that it was designing, "the Lorraine" was renamed by C= as the Amiga.
- (Probably to p*ss Atari off...IMHO)
-
- NOW do you see the tie-in with Atari? The way things were going at that time,
- Atari could just as well have been the one who acquired the Amiga company as
- repayment for a debt.
-
- Someone here has a .sig that says: "Amiga made it, C= screwed it up" which
- should now make sense to some of you. Could Atari have done any better?
-
- We'll never know...
-
- (Useless speculations on the past should go to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy)
-
- Crystal
- ;>
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