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From: ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar)
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Date: 8 Nov 90 00:46:06 GMT
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In article <77BXR3w163w@valnet> joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes:
>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! :)

Wrong.  R.J. Mical and Dave Needle were involved with the Lynx.  Jay
Mical, to my knowledge, did not have anything to do with it.  As
for the old argument "the Amiga is the Lynx development system because
no other computer had the power to do it", that is utter garbage.  The
original Lynx was designed by Epyx, and the designers used
the Amiga because they developed that system previously.

I can see no reason why the Lynx devsys could not be ported to any other
computer, even (gasp!) MS-DOS.  The thing that has stopped Atari doing
just that is the high cost of redesigning the devsys hardware, and
rewriting the development software.  Both would be major jobs, and Atari
- even if it wanted to spend that soft of money - could not afford the
time delay involved.

Personally, I am very happy that the Amiga is my devsys for Lynx
software.  In fact (as was pointed out by the previous poster), the
Amiga seems to be becoming the devsys of choice for many consoles.  At
present, we have the Genesis, the Neo-Geo, the Lynx, the (if they
ever get it out) the Konix Multisystem, and (of course) the CDTV.  
Additionally, a surprising number of coin-ops are just Amigas in boxes, 
and the Amiga is branching out (at last) into the instrumentation market 
and is becoming seen in laboratories and other similar areas.

I see this as a *very* good thing.

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