doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) (05/03/85)
> Does anyone know anything (they are permitted to say) about the Commodore > Amiga product? I read somewhere that Atari is suing Commodore for the > Amiga VLSIs that Commodore acquired when it bought Amiga, but will this > affect the release of the machine? The question is, is there such a thing as an Amiga? The Amiga Lorraine which Commodore announced some time back has never been shown in public. Given that a show-able prototype is usually produced many months before production units hit the dealers' shelves, it is a safe bet that the Commodore Lorraine will not be available this year. I'm tempted to add, "if ever". The lawsuit you mentioned stemmed from a contract between the old Amiga company and the old Atari, which called for Atari to pay Amiga to design some fancy VLSI sound and video chips. Just before Amiga sold out to Commodore and Atari sold out to Tramel Technologies, Amiga returned Atari's money in full with the explanation that Amiga had failed in their attempts to produce viable designs. Tramel Technologies claims that Amiga sold Atari's chips to Commodore. Amiga claims that there *were* no chips. Now, if there indeed were no chips, that would explain why the Lorraine has never been shown in public. And why Commodore doesn't even talk much about the Lorraine any more. P.S. It gives me a really warm feeling inside whenever I pause to think about Jack Tramiel's name being misspelled in the company's name. -- Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{ihnp4,seismo,decvax}!noao!terak!doug
howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson) (05/16/85)
> > Does anyone know anything (they are permitted to say) about the Commodore > > Amiga product? I read somewhere that Atari is suing Commodore for the > > Amiga VLSIs that Commodore acquired when it bought Amiga, but will this > > affect the release of the machine? > > The question is, is there such a thing as an Amiga? > > The Amiga Lorraine which Commodore announced some time back has never > been shown in public. Given that a show-able prototype is usually > produced many months before production units hit the dealers' shelves, > it is a safe bet that the Commodore Lorraine will not be available this > year. I'm tempted to add, "if ever". > Sorry to be contradictory, but a good friend who recently came back from Japan has told me that; 1. He has played around with the Amiga and it is really swift and COLORful, 2. It is in production via Sanyo, 3. Look for it this summer. The guy is straight and a good friend. No corporate ax to grind ( guess his employer ). I am interested to see what these "Johnny come lately's" can produce. It might even be better than the Macintosh ( guess what I'm typing on ) but then given enough time... All I know is, its been heaven so far ( and it ain't over yet ). Now if I only had an 8510/a to read all those old 8" floppys on my shelf :-). -- Time for a new catchy phrase in my Howard C. Simonson .signature, now if I could only ...{dragon,hplabs,ihnp4,nsc}!amdahl!howard think of one... [ Opinion? What opinion. I think you have the wrong guy... ]