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>PC Magazine: Inside Track (10/22/96)

>PC
>Magazine -- October 22, 1996

>Inside Track

>John C. Dvorak


>The Jinxed Machine Rises Once Again, Maybe, Dept.: The hapless Amiga, a
>machine a decade ahead of its time (there's a lesson in there somewhere) was
>sold by a bankrupt Commodore to Germany's Escom AG two years back. Users
>hoped the sale would signal a revival, but Escom AG couldn't do anything with
>it and went bankrupt in July 1995, leaving the Amiga in shambles. Now the
>machine's design has been sold to VIScorp, a Chicago-based set-top-box maker.
>Meanwhile, as a result of the bankruptcy, numerous companies are claiming
>rights to the machine.

>No matter. VIScorp plans to revive the machine. There is some talk about
>porting the Amiga's OS code to the PowerPC, which would probably be a great
>idea, since the Amiga OS remains one of the great operating systems of the
>past 20 years, incorporating a small kernel and tremendous multitasking
>capability the likes of which have only recently been developed in OS/2 and
>Windows NT. The biggest difference is that the Amiga OS could operate fully
>and multitask in as little as 256K of address space. Even today, the OS is
>only about 1MB in size.And to this day, there is very little a
>memory-hogging, CD-ROM-loading OS can do that the Amiga can't. Tight
>code--there's nothing like it.

>I've had an Amiga for maybe a decade. It's the single most reliable piece of
>equipment I've ever owned. It's amazing! You can easily understand why so
>many fanatics are out there wondering why they are alone in their love of the
>thing. The Amiga continues to inspire a vibrant--albeit cultlike--community,
>not unlike that which you have with Linux, the Unix clone. Expect to see
>VIScorp release a
>68060 upgrade board for the machine. Amazing how high-quality machinery never
>dies an easy death.

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I remember reading this - and being AMAZED.  A hell of a BALANCED view for a PC
Magazine.  Impressed - damn straight.  Yep, I share his sentiments :)

Tim