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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 12:26:12 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, comp.sys.amstrad.8bit, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.atari.advocacy, comp.sys.atari.st, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair
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Chris Young wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 07:33:41 -0500, sands-of-iowa (of comp.sys.sinclair "fame")
> wibbled on for an age:
>
> > but if you use windows a Pc maker can not use ANY OTHER OS
> > or they lose their lic. from microsoft that why Gateway owns Amiga
> > you do not put out an Amiga computer because they would lose Windows..
>
> Actually it's because they don't own Amiga any more.

Perhaps I'm out of date, but I seem to recall Gateway creating a a subsidiary
wholly owned, that was to create and sell Amiga/DOS hard/software.

Roy

> If they had
> released an Amiga under the Gateway name, then what you ay is probably
> true.  However, if they had released one under the Amiga name it
> wouldn't have mattered.  Anyway, this is all ancient history now.
>
> Chris
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- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
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