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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware Idiots ?
Message-ID: <22009@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 29 May 91 18:19:27 GMT
References: <1991May22.193016.12202@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <21889@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991May27.090523.8605@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> <-5PC_F#@irie.ais.org>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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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?

While the often stated excuse for the Amiga development, way back when, was
"to build the ultimate game machine", that was simply a good way to attract
money in the early 80s, when game machines were hot.  If the Amiga were really
intended as an 80's answer to the C64 and Atari 800, it would have come with
an operating system similar to that of those machines; one step behind MS-DOS
instead of two or more steps ahead.  And C= would have two or three programmers
working on the AmigaOS, rather than the many they have.  And no one would be
talking about A3000s, multitasking, 24 bit graphics, UNIX, GUIs, networking,
expansion buses, etc.
-- 
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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