>just have one thing to say about this.
>The amiga still used (not by much admittly) in
>vidoe productions,
>especially the toaster. I always thougt the Atari >computers were
>nothing but a cheap rip off of the Amiga and The
>Macintosh.
Hmm Jay Miner (correct spelling btw) said the Atari ST was a "neat little computer". Check out his interview on Aminet.
>The New Amiga is planned to "hardware
>independent".
The new Amiga is also operating system independant.
The Atari had VDI to abstract the screen display whereas the classic Amiga is still tied to AGA etc.
>I don't hear this being suggested for the Atari.
>I liked thier game systems, but I did not like
>thier computers.
Different strokes for different people.
Ask yourself how TOS and GEM run on a PC video card on some of the clone systems. Think abstraction :-)
>Incidently many some of the original Amiga team
>people, espcailly Jay
>Minor, had worked at Atari. Jay Minor had helped
>design the Atari
>2600 (AKA The VCS), and the Atari 400 and 800
> computers. But this
>was before Jack Tramiel left Commodore and bought >atari.
The primary architect of the ST designed the C64.
Incestious stuff indeed ;-)
>Oh, someone mentioned that Commodore stole the
>Amiga from Atari. Well
>that is not exactly true. Atari had loaned them
>money, and offered to
>by them, but didn't buy them. They came close, but >Commodore offered
>them a better deal.
If you're curious you can find the document with the details of Atari's involvment with the Amiga.
I'm glad they didn't get it as it meant I had two nice computers instead of one. :-)
