Plans for new Amiga due today
By Stephanie Miles and Brooke Crothers
Staff Writers, CNET NEWS.COM
May 15, 1998, 10:25 a.m. PT
update Amiga, once one of the hottest PC companies in the world, will spell out how it intends to reinvent itself with a new operating system and sub-$1,000 PCs at an upcoming conference in London.
At an event styled the World of Amiga conference to be held on May 16 and 17, the Gateway subsidiary is planning to announce new operating system (OS) software slated to launch in November of 1998, according to Amiga. Amiga OS 4.0 will feature a new user interface and support older Amiga software, the company said.
The new Amiga OS will likely incorporate code from the former Amiga OS as well as Linux or possibly Java code, an Amiga executive revealed.
Amiga will also announce plans to unveil a personal computer based on Intel architecture. "The new system will provide a bridge to the next generation of Amiga technology," the company said. Currently, Amiga computers use an old Motorola 68000 series processor.
Scheduled to become available in November, the system will cost an estimated $999.
In an earlier call with Amiga enthusiasts and distributors, Jeff Schindler, general manager of Amiga, unveiled plans to release an Amiga PC-TV "convergence" product sometime in 1999. Schindler speculated that possible products may include a set-top box with a DSS (digital satellite system) decoder or another type of information appliance. A former Gateway executive, Schindler previously worked on the Destination, Gateway's TV-PC product.
Gateway acquired Amiga in early 1997 but has yet to announce any definitive hardware or software plans for the Amiga technology.
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