AmigaOne on Arstechnica

[MayhemMaybe]

Hope I'm not posting this to the wrong place.

Review of the prerelease of AmigaOne and OS4.

check the link here: (it's also a link from their main page as a spotlighted article)

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/amiga.ars

Some information is not quite correct (compared to my best recollection) on the history. Like, did Viscorp ever actually buy Commodore? I thought they had intentions but never managed it. Did Escom only really want the Commodore name and logo? I recall them developing but never selling the 'Walker'. Also, did Commodore stop production and selling of A1000s before the 500 and 2000 came out? They may have stopped production, butI recall them still being available. I actually had intended to get one instead of the 500 because I liked its looks before I found out the 500 was better due to the limited Kickstart RAM of the 1000 and lack of ability to expand the chipram in the 1000.

[seer]

Like, did Viscorp ever actually buy Commodore?

Not sure, I think the deal fell through because either Viscorp couldn't get enough money or because Escom went bankrupt before the deal could be signed or something.

Did Escom only really want the Commodore name and logo?

Again, not sure. I seem to remember Amigans pestering Escom into producing Amiga's again.. Or was that Gateway..?

Also, did Commodore stop production and selling of A1000s before the 500 and 2000 came out?

Don't think so.. Stopped production perhaps, but not before the A500 was in good supply.

Sjees. Has it been so long allready...

[chipper701]

Hey! It even hit the news section on bluesnews.com

[rayt]

Like, did Viscorp ever actually buy Commodore?     Not sure, I think the deal fell through because either Viscorp couldn't get enough money or because Escom went bankrupt before the deal could be signed or something.

I also seem to remember that they never bought them, although several amiga magazines at that time already wrote headlines like "viscorp, the new c= owners" IIRC..

Again, not sure. I seem to remember Amigans pestering Escom into producing Amiga's again.. Or was that Gateway..?

Escom was actually interested in the amiga and produced the A1200s and A4000Ts with the black/red amiga logo. Also the walker was developed under escom.. Gateway didn't do anything at all..

[seer]

Escom was actually interested in the amiga and produced the A1200s and A4000Ts with the black/red amiga logo.

IIRC not at first. They wanted the C= trademark, but the sale included everything, take it or leave it. After Escom went through their new assets and Amiga fans started mailing; please make new miggies to Escom that Escom looked up and saw a "potential" market.

Gateway didn't do anything at all..

They may not have done anything, but their plans were big. Urban legend has it that the CEO of Gateway 2000 (Tedd Wait?) was angry because nobody told him that the Amiga was up for sale..

After that, they bought it from Escom, they wanted to make the Amiga a succes, but either the bean counters at Gateway or Microsoft made Gateway drop it. (It was said MS told gateway that if they started selling non Windows PC's they woudn't be allowed to sell any of their PC's with Windows)