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[News] Amiga alumni hope to rise above the dinANN.lu
Posted on 09-Jan-2001 12:51 GMT by Christian Kemp3 comments
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Mark Loyd quotes a CNet article that says: "One company is trying to rise above the din of the Consumer Electronics Show with a new multitasking wireless chip, a new pitch, and backing from a major customer, Panasonic." The article says the company "has its roots in the Amiga, and goes on to talk about the Amiga, the company and its future potentials, and quotes a representative with a plan to blow Transmeta away.
Amiga alumni hope to rise above the din : Comment 1 of 3ANN.lu
Posted by Ben on 08-Jan-2001 23:00 GMT
Is it just me or does that article switch between saying it IS Amiga and then is "some people that saw an Amiga once and thought it was cool"?
;)
Amiga alumni hope to rise above the din : Comment 2 of 3ANN.lu
Posted by PaulT on 11-Jan-2001 23:00 GMT
It's somewhere in between. Old C= engineering types are involved, and they say that they implemented multitasking as inspired by the Amiga's OS. But they aren't apparently using anything from TAO, or the current company. So I can't bring myself to care about them, the ploy is to give themselves some Amiga spin without being any more than another set of refugees.
Amiga alumni hope to rise above the din : Comment 3 of 3ANN.lu
Posted by gary_c on 14-Jan-2001 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (PaulT):
Here's a little more pleasant interpretation: Although the new company doesn't use
anything from Amiga itself, it illustrates (again) the high quality of the Amiga
developer community. Only one of the founders even worked at Commodore; the other
two were a third-party developer and a reseller, IIRC, but I like how this story
shows people staying at the edge of the technology curve and sort of using good
concepts from their old Amiga days as a touchstone for quality and features. I didn't
get the impression that they were *trying* to build hype based on the Amiga connection.
That seemed to be more the writer's hook. Their ideas seem to have their own merits,
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