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Albert Koellner <albert.koellner@aut.alcatel.at> wrote:


>In the following i'll post some of my correspondance with Dave Haynie,
>to share the thoughts with all:

>On Fri, 08 Dec 95 11:45:32  Dave Haynie wrote:
>>Albert Koellner <albert.koellner@aut.alcatel.at> writes:
>>i'd like to get some opinions on possibilities and obstacles for Be Inc. and 
>>AT to combine some efforts.

>I think the main obstacle is that, while the target markets appear
>similar, there's not as much overlap as there appears to be. This
>isn't necessarily a good thing, either. The Amiga WAS a prime hacker's
>machine, a video machine, and a home computer. The BeBox is being
>pushed primarily as the former right now, though the realtime and media
>synchronization technologies in the BeOS should support real
>video/multimedia much as it exists on the Amiga. Of course, they'll
>need some new hardware, they don't support a video compatible display
>card yet.

YES !!! EXACTLY !!

In fact I was an Amiga Fanatic until the BeBox came 8-)

>The Amiga's short-lived death and general lack of support from C= in
>the latter years certainly killed a segment of the techie market;
>these folks always want something hot. Perhaps the BeBox can regain
>some of that, but people are already complaining about the hardware
>not being ground breaking. I don't know what they really want, but
>that's the complaint made. 

Which segment are you speaking about ? The hackers ? I don´t think
didn´t... In fact, those are the ones that stood up with the machine,
even after commodore was long dead, because there was no other machine
better than the Amiga... Again, until Be came 8-)

>So what happens? Good question! I was a bit skeptical, but if AT pulls
>it off, they'll have an interesting market position. They'll be the
>only OS that could run on 4MB machines, certainly the only one that's
>happy on 8MB systems; a big advantage unless the floor drops on memory
>prices. The low-end Power Amigas, shipping by then (at least in an
>ideal world), don't have the resources to run other CHRP systems off
>the shelf, and they're cheap, so the AmigaOS quickly establishes
>itself as the PPC gamer's OS of choice. If that happens, the AmigaOS
>could come out very strong in the market, as other Amiga developers
>are sucked back in, then maybe even some new blood. 

That´s not sure... No one know that the new OS will run happilly on
8Mb.... They´re still making it...

>Well, one can dream. If something like this doesn't happen in 1H97,
>they're going to have real problems keeping the Amiga going in 1998.

Yep...



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