>They bought the rights to the Amiga hardware and software from a defunct
>predecessor, made grandiose announcements (about new products, porting the
>OS, and reviving the line), got everybody's hopes up, and then dropped the
>whole thing because it was too little too late and/or uneconomic to serve
>the declining base of Amiga users. Same thing that Amiga International,
>Escom, and several others have done since Commodore went bankrupt. Gateway
>just hurts more because they were: A) the most recent B) rich enough to be
>a credible hope C) possibly the last, best hope. I can't imagine another
>major company bidding on the rights to the Amiga after so many others have
>failed.
>A sad end to a nice OS that still multi-tasks better than most.
Actually, there's still a bit of hope yet. Eternal Computing is
interested in getting AmigaOS running on the PowerPC Open Platform, as
can be seen at
<
http://www.eternalcomputing.com/psys/platforms/platforms.html>.
And Schmidt of Amiga writes:
"I remain committed to seek out partners who are interested in developing
a next-generation Amiga computer and operating system."
So there's still a chance.
Tom Owad
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Received on Tue Dec 07 1999 - 15:13:25 GMT