Gateway and Amiga: They have opened the hardware/software
licensing and there area several amiga boxes, mostly popular
in Europe, of course. England is particularly fond of multiple
computer architectures.
The BOXer is an amiga that fits in a 5.25" drive bay live a
CD drive, with amiga floppy and a bus interface card to other
PC I/O. Sort of a reverse bridgeboard setup.
I think that is the amigaTech product. Then there is the PIOS
box by Haynie & Co., high performance in a CHRP machine, running
I think BeOS/Mac/Amiga.
One idea of the acquisition was, Gateway needed to own another
OS so that it could, within the MS restrictions, sell boxes that didn't have MS windows, ie Mac clones. Jobs has nixed that plan for now, but there may be other things to come. They aren't going to try and re-launch the Amiga in the US, I think.
Greg |
