Amiga Update (1995-05-26)

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950526 
              ESCOM PLANS POWER-PC, MULTIPLE OSs FOR AMIGA 

 I hope there's no copyright problem with sending this out, but I thought 
everyone would like to see this. Thanks to Jerry Hughes of NRCSA for  
bringing it to my attention. This appeared recently in a copy of PowerPC 
News, an online magazine. I am including their tag line in case anyone 
wishes to subscribe. 
 Brad 
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ESCOM PLANNING POWERPC AMIGA NEXT YEAR; PONDERING OTHER OS's 
(May 23rd 1995) Escom AG, the Heppenheim, Germany-based computer 
manufacturer and retailer that has bought Commodore's technology 
and rights will produce a PowerPC-based machine next year. The 
company is also planning to support other operating systems 
including Windows NT, OS/2 and Mac OS. 

The company will lay out its full technical plans for the Amiga 
next week, however on the face of it, it looks as if the company 
will produce a version of the Amiga based on the new PowerPC 
Hardware Reference Platform, which would let it run the foreign 
OS's without too much trouble. 

The corollary of this is that, going with the HRP hardware 
platform would let the company license its operating system out 
to other PowerPC-based manufacturers. An Escom spokesman said the 
company intended that the licensing policy would be "as open as 
possible", though could not give details, as we went to press. 

The company is focusing its efforts on retaining and growing the 
Amiga's traditional multimedia base. Production of the Amiga models 
4000, 1200 and 600 will be restarted. Even the trusty Commodore 64 
will be dragged out of retirement to server the East European market. 
Before the PowerPC machines appear, the company intends to bolster 
its top end with a machine based on the Motorola 68060 processor. 

The company also intends to push Amiga technology into the set-top 
box arena and is talking of a PC-add in card that will let PC-users 
run Amiga applications. 

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