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Re: Are Amiga patents being used by other companies?
« on: February 05, 2003, 07:14:53 AM »
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"Later versions of the WonderTV - the A8000 and A9000 - were designed around an x86 CPU and used the Windows CE operating system."
;-) The idea of an A8000 and A9000 designed around x86 architecture would appeal to many Amiga.org-ers, but the Windows CE has got to go....
 

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Re: Are Amiga patents being used by other companies?
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2003, 08:13:08 AM »
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Didnt i read somewhere that one of the amiga copyrights is the bootable cd?
:-? Dunno.  I know that my Apple Powerbook will boot form CD, and Amiga's CD32 obviously can, but I've no idea who had it first, or who invented the idea...
 

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Re: Are Amiga patents being used by other companies?
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2003, 11:02:00 AM »
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Wait a minute there, didn't SegaMegadriveCD have a self-booting cd before cd32 ever came out? and what about ps1? they self boot too....
;-) Nope.  They just had self-booting befoure you heard about the CD32, not before it came out.  Lots of people make that mistake.

:-D It always amuses me when young people discover stuff that I enjoyed as a youngster and are then so surprised to discover that I've already heard of it.  "Wow, he's really with it, for an old guy."

:roll: If only they knew...