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From: cazabon@hercules (Charles Cazabon (186-003-526))
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Subject: Re: Hardware Idiots ?
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Date: 28 May 91 02:59:40 GMT
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In article <-5PC_F#@irie.ais.org> cython@ais.org (Tim Devlin) writes:
>I was under the impression that the Amiga was a BIG Atari 800, give that
>Jay Miner created the custom chip-set for both systems?
>
Yes, you are absolutely correct.  The Amiga 1000 was the next-generation
Atari 400/800 machine.  And the Atari ST was designed by some of the same people
that designed the Commodore 64.  Thus the irony.  I hated Commodore Business
Machines...until they bought Amiga Corporation.

					-Chuck
					cazabon@hercules.uregina.ca