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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FACTOID: Sega Genesis
Message-ID: <15518@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 1 Nov 90 16:49:01 GMT
References: <1990Oct30.173415.14243@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <77BXR3w163w@valnet>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
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In article <77BXR3w163w@valnet> joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes:
>It's also the development system for the SNK Neo*Geo entertainment 
>system. It's real new, and not on the market yet, but used a 68000. 
>Amigas are also used for the Atari Lynx. Since Jay Miner has something to 
>do with the Amiga, and he knew a lot about the Amiga, he decided tp use 
>some of the Amiga's technology, thus making it hard to use an ST for the 
>dev system. Reportedly Atari didn't like it much knowing that they had to 
>use Amigas for the Lynx. Maybe Jay was doing us a favor! :)

The Amigans that worked on the Lynx included RJ Mical and Dave
Needle.  Jay Miner did not work on the Lynx.  But yes, he did have
"something to do with the Amiga"!

>-Joseph Hillenburg

     Peter
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