| [Rant] Jason Compton on Amiga/Red Hat announcement | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 24-Aug-2000 07:07 GMT by Christian Kemp | 39 comments
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Jason Compton wrote in comp.sys.amiga.misc: All this is, is an announcement that says that Red Hat will sell Amiga's SDK through their web store. I confirmed with Red Hat's Melissa London (who confirmed it with execs within the company) that this is in no way an announcement of any agreement, alliance, partnership, or joint development agreement. This is, in effect, a press release that says "Our CD is on sale at RedHat.com." Don't let anyone tell you different.
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| Posted by Jason Compton on 24-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 34 (Anonymous):
>Commodore always propagated Amiga as a game machine, and never
>emphasized the benefits of its OS. (Sure, they 'pushed' their
>crap PC line for 'serious work'. What a blindness!)
That's not entirely true. The A2000, 3000, and 4000 were most assuredly not marketed as games machines. The 3000 in particular attracted a lot of attention in the press as the power computer with the potential to turn Commodore around. It didn't exactly happen, of course, but the perception was there.
As for the 500 and 1200, they WERE marketed as game/home computers, and rightfully so.
Also keep in mind that the decision to tout the PC as the computer for serious work was not made by Commodore alone, it was a standard established years before the Amiga was even released. |
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