[opendtv] Re: Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips

  • From: John Golitsis <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:21:37 -0400

Corporate mismanagement killed the Amiga.

BeOS may have been a fair bit Amiga-like, but the hardware wasn't.  =20
The 'magic' of the Amiga was all in hardware engineering.  The =20
software was then designed to take advantage of the hardware.

As for Be, the BeBox was killed off and BeOS was subsequently ported =20
to the Wintel platform.  It then began a slow and painful death march.

One that OS X just might imitate.

On 10-Jun-05, at 4:38 PM, John Shutt wrote:

> I never heard of Jean-Louis before so I googled him.  Here is a =20
> 1996 Wired!
> magazine story about Gassee.
>
> <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.05/gassee.html?=20
> topic=3D&topic_set=3D>
>
> The story is mostly about Gassee's launch of his BeBox computer. My =20=

> favorite
> quote:
>
> "Many things we've done in our company we are doing by studying =20
> Amiga," he
> adds. "That company sold 4 1/2 million units and at one point had $800
> million in annual revenues." Gass=E9e goes so far as to say his =20
> product is a
> "spiritual descendant" of Amiga.
>
> Apparently he succeeded in emulating Amiga.
>
> John
>
 
 
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