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/ hpcuha:comp.sys.mac / thanatos@pro-graphics.cts.com (Steve Godun) writes:

>Not wanting to start a war, but Apple had NOTHING to do with the Amiga. The
>Amiga was designed by an independent contractor (contracted by, ironically
>enough, Atari, but Atari dropped them two weeks after Jack Tramiel took over
>Atari) and was initially going to be a high-end video game machine. Commodore
>picked it up and, well, you know the rest. (Also, the Amiga's chipsets were
>designed by the same team that designed the custom chips for the Atari 8-bit
>series of computers, so even if Commodore didn't pick up Amiga it wouldn't
>have gone to Apple.)

Just some corrections to historical points and to add some relevance to
comp.sys.mac:

The team that designed the Amiga chip set included engineers from both
the Atari 8-bit team and the Macintosh design team. 
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The Amiga wasn't designed on contract.  It was originally planned to be
marketed by Amiga Inc. itself.  You are correct in stating that it was
planned originally as a high-end video game.

By the way *Five* custom chips were done as part of the original Mac
development.  And Bill Atkinson talked about a blitter for Quickdraw as
early as 1981!

Steve Jobs saw the Lorraine(Amiga) prototype at an early stage of
development while he was still at Apple.

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