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- From: meikled@kralizec.zeta.org.au (David Meiklejohn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: SAGE TEchnologies?
- Date: 24 Apr 1994 00:40:35 +1000
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- In <CoL3rM.B7E@dorsai.org> einstein@dorsai.org (Barry Einstein) writes:
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- >David Tiberio (dtiberio@ic.sunysb.edu) wrote:
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- >: This is only speculation, but rumor has it that SAGE Technologies
- >: may have bought Commodore.
-
-
- >SAGE is (or was) the name of an abandoned graphics standard being
- >promoted by Progressive (the Rambrandt) and Digital Micronics (the
- >Resolver) for their proprietory graphics cards for the Amiga.
-
-
- Go back about ten years and you'll find what were then extremely highend
- "micros", based on the 68000, made by a company called "Sage".
-
- I just pulled out a benchmark comparison from Australian Personal Computer,
- February 1986, where they compare all the machines they benchmarked in 1985.
- Top of the table was the "Sage II". They say, "For all the advances of the
- year, nobody has been able to better the Sage II for speed". In case anyone
- is interested, the top five micros of the time were (speedwise):
-
- Sage II
- HP Vectra
- Compaq Deskpro 286
- Commodore Amiga
- Kaypro 286i
-
- In reference to the Amiga, they say "Also beating [the IBM AT] was the
- great Commodore hope, the Amiga. This is as much a home as a business
- micro, so takes the prize from Challenger in the home category, being
- over twice as fast. It is a good deal faster than other business micros
- too. Note that it runs a 68000 processor".
-
- Fascinating, eh? How times have changed, and all that... :-(
-
- Anyway, the point is that Sage used to be a name associated with 68k
- systems, so it's not inconceivable that they have been laying low these
- last eight years and now for some strange reason want to buy Commodore.
- Who knows?
-
-
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