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To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (5888)	5/25/1998 1:23:00 PM
From: Brian Lempel	Respond to of 8002

I haven't been in GTW for several months, but it was thought at the time of the purchase tht they would use the technology to provide a cheap solution possibly for the Chinese market. Brian

To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (5888)	5/25/1998 2:59:00 PM
From: Greg Jung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8002

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