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From: farren@sat.com (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.games,comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar05.010601.18832@sat.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 01:06:01 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.013846.26519@gsm001.uucp> <1991Mar4.030134.7183@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <19467@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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raible@cbmvax.commodore.com writes:
>In fact Jay Miner (former Atari guru) and Co. designed the Amiga to be
>the ultimate game machine. It wasn't until CBM came along that the
>decision was made to make a personal computer out of it.

Oy vey!  Perhaps Commodore should print a little pamphlet for its employees,
with a little history in it...

The Amiga was evolved into a personal computer some time before Commodore
ever got their hands on it.  I have in my possession a complete set of Amiga
documentation from 1983-1984, when Amiga, Inc. was simply that, and it shows
an Amiga with a keyboard, 5-1/4" floppy drive, memory expansion slot (on
the top of the case, so that expansion modules could be "stacked"), and
several other attributes of a personal computer.  While it might have
started out as a simple game machine, it was much more than that before
the advent of CBM.
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| Michael J. Farren                                      farren@sat.com |
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