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- Escom Announce Power PC Amiga Plans!
- And production of A4000/060
- And Amiga Card For the PC
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- ESCOM PLANNING POWERPC AMIGA NEXT YEAR; PONDERING OTHER OS's
- (May 23rd 1995)
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- 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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