16 Jul
1997
16 Jul
'97
6:21 p.m.
Last I checked/remembered, ESCOM held the rights to the
Commodore name and
to many of their patents/literature/etc. They are at
http://www.commodore.net. Lately, Gateway purchased all the Amiga stuff
and if I remember correctly started licensing clone makers.
Gateway got the Amiga stuff, but not the Commodore stuff. The two are once
again seperate companies. Amiga is a seperate business unit of Gateway
http://www.amiga.de , and I believe consists of 7 people. Apparently work
is underway on a 64-bit version of the OS running on the PowerPC. I think
there are a total of two clone makers, and Amiga itself has two models,
both of which are '93 era tech! Somehow it seems like a ridiculous risk on
Gateway's part, but who knows.
As for Commodore, they are owned by some Dutch company now I believe, but
am not sure.
Zane
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