Labels:text | font | letter | black and white | document OCR: SENDER : 31.05.95 02:47 NR. 12 AMIGA III Technologies Dr. Peter Kittel, Amiga Technologies Gmbh, Ladies and gentlemen, as Head of the Product Planning Group of the new Amiga Technologies GmbH I would like to give you an overview about the past and the technical future in our view. The company Commodore started in 1958 as a typewriter repair company followed by production of electric typewriters, digital watches, calculators and video games. In 1977, there was launched one of the first real desktop computers, the legendary PET 2001. It was followed by the CBM series, where the CBM 8032 dominated the german bureau market in 1980 and the following years, just before the breakthrough of the IBM PC. These 8000 series had a reputation of being especially easy to use and to program and being robust Simultaneously Commodore started the Home Computer market in 1981 with the VIC 20, soon followed by the C 64. The C 64 became the top selling computer ever, its success and sold number is again only comparable to the Volkswagen beetle. In this way Commodore had generated two different markets which complemented each other nicely. The year 1985 brought great news. In spring Commodore introduced the IBM-compatible PC 10, and in July in New York during a gala show the Amiga. - The PC 10 succeeded to carry on the advantages of the 8000 series and at least in Europe to increase the professional reputation. - The Amiga was far ahead its time with its graphics and sound capabilities and got an euphoric reception by the computer press. From its first days software and hardware vendors exploited the special capabilities of the Amiga to display graphics, or also animated graphics, all accompanied by synchronized sound. Only later the term "Multimedia" was invented for this, the Amiga did it from day one. The special capabilities of the Amiga are due to two aspects, its special hardware - the Custom Chips with the familiar names Paula, Agnus, and Denise - and on the other hand its Operating System. Looking back, one can only admire how well suited for the future this unique operating system was designed in the early 80's. As a result it offers still unmatched multitasking ability. The Amiga reacts immediately on every user input and wastes no time for administrative tasks. Typically you can run several big applications in parallel, without noticing a slow down of any of them. This all while the Amiga uses its resources like memory in RAM or on disk very efficiently, so that it appears always a bit faster through this aspect, and also doesn't stress the wallet of its owner in regards of big RAM or harddisks. A further feature of the Amiga is its video compatibility by using scan
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