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From: baer@qiclab.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Who wrote Amigavision?
Message-ID: <5089@qiclab.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 90 16:53:18 GMT
References: <1990May29.174025.984@cbnewsm.att.com>
Reply-To: baer@qiclab.UUCP (Ken Baer)
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Organization: Animators Anonymous, Portland, Oregon.
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In article <1990May29.174025.984@cbnewsm.att.com| nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock) writes:
|Subject line says it all.  Who exactly are the folks at C-A responsible for
|Amigavision?  Upon whom can we lavish the praise?  Actually, I'll hold my
|lavishing until I actually see the program, but from all reports it's really
|something.
|                                - Neil
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|Neil Weinstock @ AT&T Bell Labs        //     What was sliced bread
|att!edsel!nsw or nsw@edsel.att.com   \X/    the greatest thing since?


Actually, Commodore didn't write AmigaVision, it was written by a company
called IMSATT.  They did a popular expert system for the IBM.  I think
some of the IFF related code came from CATS, but as a whole, the program
was done outside of Commodore.  I've talked with a couple people at
IMSATT, and they sure know their stuff.  AV was written by 4 programmers,
with a 5th one added recently.  I think they did a heck of a job.  It's
nice see CBM making an effort to use the talents of 3rd party developers.
I'm glad the days of TextCraft and GraphiCraft are over.
-- 
    //    -Ken Baer.  Programmer/Animator, Hash Enterprises. 
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