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========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 02:22:08 -0800
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Bob Bickford <rab@WELL.COM>
Subject: Re: A History of the Atari ST
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Andreas Ramos <aramos@BEST.COM> wrote:
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>Tramiel looted Commodore of their top talent, including their next project. So the Atari ST was really the Commodore Amiga. In a way, it was a favor to Commodore; they had to rethink the project and they came out with the Amiga, which, ten years later, is still ahead of its time: Unix text interface, GUI, MIDI, and so on.
I'm sure I'll be one of dozens to point this out, but this paragraph gets the history of the Amiga completely wrong. In actual fact, Amiga was a separate company and development team which was *bought* by Commodore in an attempt to revive the latter. Instead, as we all know, their totally inept marketing and sales pretty much destroyed the machine in the USA. My understanding is that many or most of the original Amiga team quit in disgust when they were informed of the pending sale to Commodore. I know that I cringe whenever someone refers to that excellent machine as the "Commodore Amiga" because that's an example of a latecomer to the party trying to take credit for something that they had little to nothing to do with.
I wonder how much else in Ramos' account was similarly misinformed. Some of his other statements raised my eyebrows too, but this one jumped out as just flat ridiculous.
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Robert Bickford rab@well.com
"Professional Wild-Eyed Visionary"
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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Bob Bickford <rab@WELL.COM>
Subject: Re: A History of the Atari ST
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Andreas Ramos <aramos@BEST.COM> wrote:
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>Tramiel looted Commodore of their top talent, including their next project. So the Atari ST was really the Commodore Amiga. In a way, it was a favor to Commodore; they had to rethink the project and they came out with the Amiga, which, ten years later, is still ahead of its time: Unix text interface, GUI, MIDI, and so on.
I'm sure I'll be one of dozens to point this out, but this paragraph gets the history of the Amiga completely wrong. In actual fact, Amiga was a separate company and development team which was *bought* by Commodore in an attempt to revive the latter. Instead, as we all know, their totally inept marketing and sales pretty much destroyed the machine in the USA. My understanding is that many or most of the original Amiga team quit in disgust when they were informed of the pending sale to Commodore. I know that I cringe whenever someone refers to that excellent machine as the "Commodore Amiga" because that's an example of a latecomer to the party trying to take credit for something that they had little to nothing to do with.
I wonder how much else in Ramos' account was similarly misinformed. Some of his other statements raised my eyebrows too, but this one jumped out as just flat ridiculous.
--
Robert Bickford rab@well.com
"Professional Wild-Eyed Visionary"
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