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From: raible@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Raible - LSI Design)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware Idiots ?
Message-ID: <21961@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 28 May 91 15:42:45 GMT
References: <1991May22.193016.12202@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <21889@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991May27.090523.8605@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> <-5PC_F#@irie.ais.org> <475@regina.uregina.ca>
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In article <475@regina.uregina.ca> cazabon@hercules.uregina.ca (Charles Cazabon (186-003-526)) writes:
>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

I was here in 1982 when the C64 was just starting to ramp up. The two
designers identified most closely associated with this effort left a few
months later(along with the director of engineering to form their own 
company. These two had nothing to do with the ST. On the other hand
Shiraz Shivji(management type), John Hoenig, and perhaps a few others
left in 1983 to join Jack Tramiel in Atari-land. Perhaps someone has 
confused the individuals involved ??? As far as the Amiga being a new
and improved Atari 800, this is probably truer in the figurative sense
than the literal sense. The original intent of the Amiga project team
was to make a truly awesome game machine with hitherto unheard of
graphics and sound(and make some money for the original investor group,
Floridian dentists if I remember correctly).