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From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 11 Mar 91 05:20:01 GMT
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From article <3$P-B6-@irie.ais.org>, by jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg):
> In article <00668212609@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green) writes:
>>From article <19467@cbmvax.commodore.com>, by raible@cbmvax.commodore.com
> (Bob Raible - LSI Design):
>>> 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. Soon afterwards
>>Wrongo.
> Check who you're following up on next time.

I *KNOW* who I'm following up to :-). Actually, it's not Bob's fault. Most
of Commodore's present engineers came on board long after the original
Amiga team had been laid off/dispersed/quit/whatever. Not to mention that
Bob is an LSI designer, not a programmer, and thus is probably a hobbiest,
at best, when it comes to Amiga software etc. (Not that there's anything
wrong with that... Dave Haynie's a hardware guy, but his DiskSalv, a hobby
software project, has saved many people's hard drives).

Not to mention that I talked to a Commodore engineer oh, a month or so ago,
who confides that he's a Unix guy basically, a latecomer to the Amiga. Of
course, the guy had also produced a decent-selling Amiga utility before
joining Commodore... but he wasn't there when the Amiga was introduced, he
doesn't know.

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