8 Mar
1999
8 Mar
'99
4 a.m.
Derek Peschel wrote:
original Amiga?
In a lot of cases Commodore shipped prototype machines to
various maufacturers. I believe they used Sun systems to
develop the original AmigaOS.
Oh. :) I was wondering if you had some sort of inside
connection.
Perhaps you're just an interested outsider.
I nave had some contact with people from Amiga Inc over
Usenet and get information from some of the Amiga journos
but that is pretty much it. The problem is NDA's. They can't
talk about much and what they do mention is in riddles.
I've also heard that having two companies (Amiga
Inc. and Amiga Corp.,
or whatever) has been very counterproductive. Have they sorted that out
yet?
They've appointed a new manager and combined the two
companies to a large extent. I can't remember his exact
name at the moment. Check out www.amiga.com for the recent
announcement.
- The
Developers Machine.
Wasn't there a similar developers' machine for the
The set-top box is novel. Correct me if I'm
wrong; that hasn't been tried
before (unless you count the CD32), right?
Well, the CD32 was really aimed at the console market. The
CDTV was aimed at what would become known as the set-top
market but it was a few years too early.
--
Gareth Knight
Amiga Interactive Guide- http://welcome.to/aig
"Shine on your star"