16 Feb
2001
16 Feb
'01
1:31 p.m.
John Foust skrev:
At 11:49 PM 2/16/01 +0100, you wrote:
>>>can't Microsoft get it right with thousands of programmers, 800+MHz
>>>processors, hundreds of megabytes of RAM, and gigabytes of disk space?
>>Because they lack orginality and would rather swallow up
>>whatever smaller companies actually come up with original ideas?
>>Less time spent on R&D that way.
>
>Amen. Just in the Amiga market, they swallowed Blue Ribbon, LZX (.CAB) and
>ASDG. A real waste, too.
Blue Ribbon happily sold out to Microsoft. Keep in
mind that
a "big" Amiga company was typically smaller than any
Microsoft team on a sub-project, so one can hardly cry foul
when a product was swallowed never to be heard from again.
Of course, who can say no to green pieces of paper? I'd probably do the same
thing. At least it was a nice gesture of M$ to release Bars'n'Pipes semi-
publicly.
I'm not aware of any connection between ASDG
/Elastic Reality
and Microsoft. ASDG sold out to Avid... again, quite willingly.
Their products were barely marketed there and languished.
Really? I thought those two were M$ victims.
I'm not aware of the connection between .CAB and
LZX. Did they
buy a technology or just hire the person?
They certainly hired the person, don't know who actually owns the technology.
Another Amiga/Microsoft connection was the RIFF file
format,
which was IFF with Intel endian.
Hmmmmm.
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