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In article <19785@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2FHDBEAK@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>In article <2819@caesar.cs.montana.edu>, icsu8053@ming (Pratt) writes:
>> More trivia:
>> 
>> I seem to recall that the development system for the Amiga was an Atari 800.
>> Talk about serious plot twists!  Will the Lynx also be turned into a PC ala
>> the Amiga?  Just curious...NO FLAMES, it's finals week and I couldn't deal
>> with it!
>> 
>> Craig Pratt
>
>Sorry, Craig, the Amiga was developed on Sun workstations.  In fact, the
>origninal Amiga DOS manuals make several references to porting code from the
>Sun.
>
>The designer of the A1000's custom chips (whose name escapes me at the moment)
>also designed the ANTIC, CTIA, and PIA chips on the orignial Atari 800.
>
>Good luck with finals.  If yours are the hell mine are, I can sympathize.
>
>--Jim Sisul

Sorry Jim :-)

The computer system actually used for the original Amiga development
was a 68000-based Sage computer.

An Atari 800 was used only for emulating a simple raster display.

Jay Miner and a couple of the other Amiga chip designers were from
the OLD Atari company.

Several of the early Amiga guys worked at Epyx on their "secret
project", which we now know today as the Lynx.
--
     Peter Cherna, Software Engineer, Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
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