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dsgrace
Jun 19, 2012, 7:36:42 PM6/19/12
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Another of those "somebody's about to bring out an Amiga" stories:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/428033/how_icaros_desktop_brings_amiga_experience_x86_pcs/
Funny that this one is posted on the twenty-year anniversary of Commodore
going bankrupt; important distinction: C= declared bankruptcy in
1994 but they went bankrupt in 1992. Their sales that year were so
abysmal that the Chief Financial Officer publically stated that he
couldn't see how they could stay in business. Gould "loaned" the
company $20 million at some exhorbitant 11% interest (allowing
him & Mehdi Ali to maintain their $2 million/year salaries) with the
stipulation that *should* Commodore go bankrupt the $20 million
would be payed back from sales of assests before any other creditors
were paid.
There was a posting to the "amiga.dev/suggestions" section on BIX
dated Jun 16, 1992 entitled "Suggestion for After the Wake" that
proposed they "build on the original ideas in TRIPOS of OS portability
and put it on 80x86 . . ." to make a hardware-independent OS which
appears to be what the above link is still attempting to do.
Twenty years too late . . .
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/428033/how_icaros_desktop_brings_amiga_experience_x86_pcs/
Funny that this one is posted on the twenty-year anniversary of Commodore
going bankrupt; important distinction: C= declared bankruptcy in
1994 but they went bankrupt in 1992. Their sales that year were so
abysmal that the Chief Financial Officer publically stated that he
couldn't see how they could stay in business. Gould "loaned" the
company $20 million at some exhorbitant 11% interest (allowing
him & Mehdi Ali to maintain their $2 million/year salaries) with the
stipulation that *should* Commodore go bankrupt the $20 million
would be payed back from sales of assests before any other creditors
were paid.
There was a posting to the "amiga.dev/suggestions" section on BIX
dated Jun 16, 1992 entitled "Suggestion for After the Wake" that
proposed they "build on the original ideas in TRIPOS of OS portability
and put it on 80x86 . . ." to make a hardware-independent OS which
appears to be what the above link is still attempting to do.
Twenty years too late . . .
milt
Jun 20, 2012, 7:43:01 PM6/20/12
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emulation for fun. No one else is ever going to want an Amiga as a
serious computing platform. All it has is nostalgia, nothing more.
Windows and Macs (and even Linux now) can do far more than you could
ever do with an Amiga, so, why would anyone want one now?
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