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Posted by doc on 09/14/05 16:29
what a bummer to see something so forward moving as that disappear. :o(
"TonyP" <arpierre@hooptonline.net> wrote in message
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> doc wrote:
>
>> why didn't they move on up?
>
> The Amiga was a revolutionary computer for it's time with extremely poor
> marketing and overall company management. It was owned by Commodore
> Business Machines, who marketed the insanely popular C64, C128, Vic 20,
> etc.. The Amiga group were forward thinkers. The Amiga was the first true
> pre-emptive multitasking 32bit computer of it's day. It had the ability to
> display over 4000 colors when the IBM's had eitehr monochrome or 16. It
> had built in speech, 8 channel stereo and output to NTSC. It's floppies
> formatted out to 880k while, the same disk for a PC only 720k. It had a
> GUI before PC, used SCSI (faster and easier to expand instead of IDE), and
> was able to emulate both Mac and PC on the same computer. Amazing. And, it
> did this all with only 512k of ram! Mind you, this was back in 1989! Then,
> the Video Toaster came on the scene! It revolutionized DTV. No only did it
> revolutionize it, it created it!
>
> But the greed of the corporate heads with their off shore Bahama structure
> bled the company and it's assests dry. It went from a billion dollar a
> year company to nothing in a few years.
> We all know how you by the Playstation and XBox, well, Commodore had the
> CD32 (?) which was basically the same thing, eons before Sony and M$. A
> product that was ahead of it's time.
>
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